Obscure Book Quotes

#1. Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

Coventry Patmore

#2. I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That's the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!

Hilton Als

#3. And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

David Tennant

#4. I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.

Vincent Starrett

#5. Have you ever had the experience of finding in a book some vague idea that's already occurred to you, some obscure image that comes back to you from the depths of your mind, or a perfect expression of your most subtle feelings?

Gustave Flaubert

#6. I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Bill Gates

#7. Believers are each other's mirrors.

Elif Shafak

#8. I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

Adam Rapp

#9. Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

Mary Lou Retton

#10. How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical ... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and sleeps again!

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#11. 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?

Samuel Beckett

#12. Suffering means being cut off from God. Therefore those who live in communion with him cannot really suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#13. The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

Bill Vaughan

#14. Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

Alberto Manguel

#15. It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#16. It almost feels like I have the best of both worlds in a sense. I also respect the fact that all of this could be over tomorrow so I do everything I can just to cherish the moments and days and these opportunities I have to share music that I believe in with these people who care about it.

Chuck Ragan

#17. It's good to make mistakes whether they are common or obscure, we learn more from our own mistakes while working rather than from any book or lecture.

Tanay Pant

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

Nicholson Baker

#19. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#20. Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

Susan Ertz