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Quotes About Obscure

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Il principio è sempre buio.
~ Michael Ende
the damage done by the specification of particulars may be irremediable. Meticulous detailing may obscure beyond recall a subject like history, literature, or philosophy. Speaking more generally, the belief that, since particulars are more tangible, their knowledge offers a true conception of things is fundamentally mistaken.
~ Michael Polanyi
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
~ Bjork
I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.
~ Art Alexakis
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
~ James Branch Cabell
On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.
~ James Patterson
I love the mystery behind things.
~ Janelle Monae
Love is the pursuit of shadows.
~ Margaret Atwood
It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.
~ Blaise Pascal
The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode
~ Bob Dylan
It's known as the Cellar
~ Bob Mayer
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
~ Bram Stoker
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
~ Sydney Smith
It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
~ Sylvia Plath
It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
~ Sylvia Plath
It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in the skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
~ Sylvia Plath
Nossos sonhos podem obscurecer as linhas intransigentes que desenham os contornos que nos aprisionam?
~ Sylvia Plath
Code Delphi. Hmmm. My choice of a code phrase to mark out these entries begins to seem . . . rather Delphic. In any case
~ Tad Williams
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Muitas das notas de Marco Aurélio a si próprio, (…) baseavam-se nos riscos de tirania de um imperador. Detestava especialmente Nero – um homem à mercê dos mais loucos impulsos, como um animal selvagem – ou, como Marco Aurélio descreveria imemoriavelmente "Um carácter obscuro: efeminado, grosseiro, selvagem, animalesco, pueril, cobarde, falso, tolo, mercenário e despótico.
~ Frank McLynn
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
~ Frederick Pollock
The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Throw a blanket over it!
~ Breehn Burns