Quotes About Obscure

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.

She'd learned how to disappear in place long ago.

That is, it only becomes problematic when people refuse to let blissful epiphanies remain mostly obscure and evanescent.

the history of ethics and aesthetics,—all these and many other matters remain obscure.

Paucis notus, paucioribus ignotus, Hic jacet Democritus Junior, Cui vitam dedit et mortem Melancholia Known to few, unknown to even fewer, Here lies Democritus Junior, To whom Melancholia Gave life and death.

others to cover the signs of our

Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")

Swift-piling winter clouds blotted out the sun.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

modern 'scientific' sociology, whose achievement has been to obscure by means of statistical legerdemain the importance of human consciousness

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.

Horror does better when it's bubbling under. It's a niche. It doesn't like the limelight.

cast a dark shadow on the

she slipped away unseen, like a shadow's shadow.

Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.

For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too, even when the risk to himself seems infinitesimal and the suppliant humble and devoted.