#obscure

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#any #being #clubs #death #die

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#down #go #i #lot #made

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#intense #obscures #often #too #truth

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit

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

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#investigation #me #more #need #obscure

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#days #fanatical #flourished #middle #middle ages

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fatal #growth #idea #inside #leaving