Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took,… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. — John Green Copy Share Image
“When the murmuring of love swells the river of our inner and overflows the boundaries of our emotions, the banks of oblivion… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For him, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is… — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation..… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
“Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name… — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not… — Jimmy Piersall Copy Share Image
But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized,… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer… — John Clare Copy Share Image
