#obscure

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#infinity #nature #obscure #permanent #shares

Sin is whatever obscures the soul. ↗

— Andre Gide

#sin #soul #whatever

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#began #idea #life #man #new

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#campaign #cannot #debate #defense #issues

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#case #discussed #excessively #hundred #ninety-nine

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#circle #every #his #narrow

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. ↗

— David Seabury

#complex #comradeship #intellectual #make #obscure

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting. ↗

— Grace Slick

#easy #obscure #painting #really #rock

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#obscure #skeptic #love