Quotes about Obscurity

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.