Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. — Emile M. Cioran
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its… — Virginia Woolf
The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun,… — Carl Jung
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of… — Umberto Eco
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find… — Tacitus
Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous… — Boris Pasternak
Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure… — Kristin Hannah
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand. — Elwyn Brooks White
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul… — Charlotte Bronte
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and… — Charlotte Bronte
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. — Jennifer Donnelly
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched… — Laurie R. King
God and other artists are always a little obscure..... — Oscar Wilde
Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. — Philip K. Dick
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper… — Philip K. Dick
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when… — Ambrose Bierce
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions. — Walt Disney
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them. — Benjamin Carson
I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with… — Neil Gaiman
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth… — Charles Colson
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to… — John Piper
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language. — Alexander Pushkin
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the… — George Orwell
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a… — Dylan Thomas

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