Obscure Quotes · Page 4

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

— Alfred Austin

Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social…

— Seymour Krim

“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing…

— Eric Hoffer

Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain…

— Peter D. Mitchell

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver…

— Kristoffer Rygg

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

— Christiane Collange

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting…

— Paul Cezanne

Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot…

— Elizabeth Warren

For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality.…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way…

— Howard Zinn

Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek…

— Ted Andrews

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by…

— James Gates Percival

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree…

— Samuel Johnson

I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an…

— George Ade

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves…

— Sydney Smith

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone…

— Sylvia Beach

The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing.…

— Zadie Smith

I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.

— Margaret Cavendish

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and…

— Ibn Khaldun

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as…

— Henry David Thoreau

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced…

— Margaret Halsey

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is…

— Michel Foucault

The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the…

— Everett Ruess