I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“When the ashes of the wildfire of love have been scattered in the hazy den of oblivion and emotions have gone out… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted. Why should life come into existence only to… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding… — Horace Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“We are put together in such a way that although we can be pushed and pulled and drowsied by flickering images, we… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I wanted to make pictures that contradicted themselves. I wanted to put one picture on top of another so that there were… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Why is my love for you, dyed in wool? What is the hindrance to moving on? Why in love have I been… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“The whole human earth was bleeding. Time, buildings, routes, rain, erase the constellation of the crime, the fact is, this small planet… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I'm proud of The Hangover, but to be in movies like this, which are really the only places I can get work,… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
“The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little.… — Nicholas Copernicus Copy Share Image
Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Suppose, then, that after the greatest , most passionate vividness and tender glory, oblivion is all were have to expect, the big… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s… — John Green Copy Share Image
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of… — Anna Komnene Copy Share Image
