Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!… — Kate Chopin
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no… — Frank O'Hara
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and… — Frank Herbert
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp… — Gustave Flaubert
. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction… — Arthur C. Clarke
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end… — Louis L'Amour
If you can't be kind, at least be vague. — Judith Martin
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions;… — Robert E. Howard
...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice… — Peter Kropotkin
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt… — James Joyce
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it… — Henry James
Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy… — Mercedes Lackey
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept… — Anton Chekhov
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by… — W. Somerset Maugham
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or… — Hunter S. Thompson
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,'… — N. T. Wright
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. — D. H. Lawrence
It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing… — Gregory Galloway
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to… — David Brin
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething… — H P Lovecraft
[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels… — Robin McKinley
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the… — Charles Baxter

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