Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. — Tom Robbins
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world… — Alan Moore
I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade… — Kate Morton
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… — James Branch Cabell
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been,… — Anne Rice
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in… — Thomas Hardy
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just… — Truman Capote
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this… — Agatha Christie
Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this? — Bryan Lee O'Malley
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution… — Thomas Sowell
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,… — Boris Pasternak
It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less -- even a vague pathetic facsimile of less… — Greg Behrendt
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion… — Terry Pratchett
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. — Guy de Maupassant
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. — Garth Stein
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before… — Arthur Conan Doyle
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be… — Masashi Kishimoto
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… — Philip K. Dick
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not… — Henry David Thoreau
But if it couldn't be love and it didn't feel like lust, what was it? Like? Did he like her? Of course, he did, but… — Nicholas Sparks

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