#scurit

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#forever #glory #obscurity

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#mind #obscurity #out #passion #singling

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#bands #based #because #been #choose

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#could #did #i #inflate #known

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#aids #appearance #better #building #clearer