Quotes About Obscure

What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written, but which you shall presently make as enviable and renowned as any.

The sources of great rivers, like those of great men, are often obscure – some hidden crevice high on a mountain. But in the fullness of time, the world sees their glory. So, too, shall it be with us.

It was a dark story.

You, too! it seemed to say, you, too, shall taste of that peace and that unrest in a searching intimacy with your own self - obscure as we were and as supreme in the face of all the winds and all the seas, in an immensity that receives no impress, preserves no memories, and keeps no reckoning of lives.

we had approached nearer to absolute Truth, which, like Beauty itself, floats elusive, obscure, half submerged, in the silent still waters of mystery.

We wander in our thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame, our money, only a crust of bread; but it seems to me that for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.

This place is like the back entrance to a black cow.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Pogosto je tako. Teorija, filozofija, moderna umetnost, ekonomika in druga gibanja, ki uporabljajo obskurne abstrakcije, se lahko zlahka izrodijo v domišljave nebuloze in postajajo kruti peskovniki akademskih div in elit, ki so vajene tako navduševati kakor tudi ustrahovati.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

He was a small shrunken little man, so nondescript as to be practically nonexistent.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Les arbres poussaient en silence et le règne animal limitait sa présence à des actes obscurs et muets.

Most people are afraid of the dark. Literally when it comes to children, while many adults fear, above all, the darkness that is the unknown, the unseeable, the obscure. And yet the night in which distinctions and definitions cannot be readily made is the same night in which love is made, in which things merge, change, become enchanted, aroused, impregnated, possessed, released, renewed.

How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?

It's a protected historical building. They had to preserve the internal walls." It was the kind of obscure stuff Marcus was good at remembering, and it always came in handy.

She was wearing an aggressive three-piece outfit that was probably very expensive but had the kind of pattern you would get if you cut up the flags of several obscure countries and then gave them to a blind pigeon to stick back together again.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

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

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.