Quotes About Obscure

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

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components. We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

the history is there, but it's not visible.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Personality is by nature incongruous, being a product of time. Time, at any given moment, tends to obscure this.

He's a piece of the jigsaw.' 'Maybe so, John, but if he is, he's a bit of sky or cloud – I can see the picture clearly enough without him.

Inheritance and culture obscure people's higher capacities.

The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind, and they can be seen in the church basement Friday afternoon." This doozy, culled by Richard Lederer from a church bulletin, is an instance of "obscure pronomial reference," or, in plain English, a pronoun without a clear antecedent.

Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous people in this country. It's bad enough whatever you want to call it.

a Shadow lives deep inside every one of us.

There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would.

Why the desire for death. A clean paper or pure white wall. One false line, a scratch, a mistake. Unerasable. So obscureby adding million other tracings, blend it, cover over. But the original scratch remains, written in gold blood, shining. Desire for a Perfect Life.

I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure.

I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself seems increasingly obscure.

A whirl of torrid dust veils the picture.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

Those in the Mysterium

piece of dark cloth draped over the

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

JAMES ALEXANDER MALCOLM MACKENZIE FRASER,' " she read aloud. "Yes, I know him." Her hand dropped lower, brushing back the grass that grew thickly about the stone, obscuring the line of smaller letters at its base.

David Lynch is very esoteric. He doesn't explain anything.

The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.

there can exist no dictionary that will translate into words the burden of obscure allusions that lurks in these things