Obscene Quotes

122 Obscene quotes by 106 unique authors

I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating… — Joan D. Chittister
Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard. — Robert A. Heinlein
Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a… — Tony Hoagland
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. — Irving Stone
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence… — Werner Herzog
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same… — Ernest Hemingway
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you… — John Howard Griffin
I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun -… — Henry Rollins
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs
When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness. — Kazuya Minekura
Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror. — Michael Moorcock
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to… — Robert Anton Wilson
guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders — E E Cummings
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. — D. H. Lawrence
As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us… — Robert Rankin
This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question… — David Foster Wallace
Doctors donâ€™t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene… — Joe Haldeman
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. — R C Sproul

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