Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame… — Thomas Huxley
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and… — Michel Foucault
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his… — Andre Breton
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one… — Barack Obama
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached… — Edgar Allan Poe
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse… — Italo Calvino
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! -… — Joseph Conrad
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His… — Terry Pratchett
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in… — Alex Garland
He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger… — Mary Lawson
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper. — Arthur Machen
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that… — Roald Dahl
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the… — Marquis de Sade
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. — John Green
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms… — Sri Aurobindo
If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an… — Frank O'Hara
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who… — Christopher Hitchens
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are… — Samuel Johnson
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what… — Jasper Fforde
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from… — Miguel de Cervantes
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove… — Swami Satchidananda

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