Arcane Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb. — Pablo Neruda
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.… — Ezra Pound
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. — David Levithan
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans… — Jim Butcher
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of… — Barack Obama
Itâ€™s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of… — John Hodgman
Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a… — Catherynne M. Valente
Iâ€™ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play… — Jim Butcher
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. — Elizabeth Wein
One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning. — Patrick Rothfuss
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in… — Gregory Maguire
For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays. — Brian K. Vaughan
In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear… — Thomas Harrison

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