Best 83 quotes in «obscure quotes» category

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

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 with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

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 vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week - that I ended up discovering all these obscure bands that no one had really heard here. It was very exciting to be able to play their records on the air for a new audience and be able to get instant feedback.

I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up.

I heard Tom Waits in this kinky shop on Belmont Street in Chicago. Considering the way I was raised, they were such obscure voices, but their music saved my life - I didn't know who I was before I heard Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

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 life ended but never commenced.

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

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 most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode