Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful… — Edward Abbey
Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the… — Christopher Paolini
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account. — Dorothy L. Sayers
It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow… — MacDonald Harris
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a… — Victor Hugo
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
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a… — Vladimir Nabokov
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and… — Janet Frame
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging… — David Eddings
Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered… — Bennett Madison
I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came… — Anais Nin
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry. — Marisha Pessl
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as… — Marcel Proust
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and… — Marcel Proust
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet… — Gustave Le Bon
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an… — Carl Sagan
That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun… — Horace
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. — Wendell Willkie
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are… — Victor Hugo
People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people-people of character… — William Bennett
Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you would… — Rodney Stark
I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up… — Dylan Moran
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of… — Martin Filler
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world. — George M. Whitesides

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