Obscurely Quotes

#1. Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )

Italo Calvino

#2. If you hear screaming, it's my meltdown. Do me a favor and make sure I stay dressed."
Those hazel eyes took their sweet time taking in every inch of my body. "I make no promises.

Ashlan Thomas

#3. Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#4. Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

Voltaire

#5. Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.

Simon Hoggart

#6. The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Queen Elizabeth II

#7. When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the
writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, if Chrysippus had not written
obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.

Epictetus

#8. You can have my body, I think. But you can't touch my heart.

Skye Warren

#9. She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up.

Helen Hodgman

#10. This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Emily Murphy

#11. Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#13. [T]hat they may believe you, you must say it as obscurely as possible, just like that, simply in hints. You must only give them a peep of the truth, just enough to tantalize them. They'll tell a story better than ours, and of course they'll believe themselves more than they would us ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.

Nelson Algren

#15. He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

Ovid

#16. In truth, they were not given to quarrelling. Many couples who love each other more, quarrel more, and with less politeness.

George MacDonald

#17. In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.

Esaias Tegner

#18. Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

Steve Aylett

#19. Everything you say,' Geno said rather irritably, 'contradicts itself.'
'Of course it does,' the screech owl rejoined obscurely. 'Otherwise, how would anyone ever keep to the middle of the road?

Felix Salten

#20. Strange that in my remoteness I seemed to feel, as never before, the vital presence of Earth as of a creature alive but tranced and obscurely yearning to wake.

Olaf Stapledon

#21. The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when written, but whose absence is obscurely felt by that which exists, in its own incompleteness.

Italo Calvino

#22. Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.

Ron Loewinsohn

#23. Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".

Vivian Amis

#24. I had blundered again, obscurely, and rather than go on worrying over my behavior, I decided to just give in and dislike Alice.

Michael Cunningham

#25. A warm human plumpness settled down on his brain. His brain yielded. Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore.

James Joyce

#26. When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

#27. For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

Philip Sidney

#28. I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

Padgett Powell

#29. [ ... ] at any rate there is nothing in the world more dreary, damping, and obscurely perturbing than to come out of a cinema in the afternoon to a noisy world.

Patrick Hamilton

#30. People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

Marshall McLuhan

#31. Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison

#32. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy.

Victor Hugo

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

James Hillman

#34. Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#35. Contemplation is the awareness and realization, even in some sense experience, of what each Christian obscurely believes: "It is now no longer I that live but Christ lives in me." Hence

Thomas Merton

#36. His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

Albert Camus

#37. I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and I want people to love life like crazy too.

Jerome Jarre

#38. And I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.

Mary Shelley