All Quotes by Obscurity
“Content thyself to be obscurely good.”
“Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scentOf odours in unhaunted deserts.”
“That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error.”
“The palpable obscure.”
“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
“Yet was he but a squire of low degree.”
“The evolutionary urge drives man to seek for intenser forms of fulfillment, since his basic urge is for more life, more consciousness, and this contentment has an air of stagnation that the healthy mind rejects. (This recognition lies at the centre of my own 'outsider theory': that there are human beings to whom comfort means nothing, but whose happiness consists in following an obscure inner-drive, an 'appetite for reality'.)”
“I give the fight up; let there be an end,I want to be forgotten even by God.”
“As night the life-inclining stars best shows,So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
“Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.”
“Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just,And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.”
“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Tell where I lie.”
“She dwelt among the untrodden ways And very few to love.”