Oblivion Quotes · Page 5

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

— W. G. Sebald

“There is no fame, no glory, and no power that can never end. In the end, there is oblivion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.”

— Sophocles

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

— Richard de Bury

“This is when I'd cry because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.

— David Jeremiah

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Wishing to grab the life with nothingness wanting to erase the sigh of tiredness forgetting myself completely from my being why do…

— Suman Pokhrel

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If…

— D. H. Lawrence

Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment… Humanity is…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple…

— Barry Bostwick

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in…

— Hermann Hesse

Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed.…

— Hyman Rickover

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish…

— Lewis Black

You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes.…

— Frederick Lenz

“He had yet to discover what destroyed that desire. But he did not dwell on it. He thought rather of whatever had…

— Toni Morrison

What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been…

— William Maxwell

Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation.…

— Khalil Gibran

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree…

— Samuel Johnson

“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words,…

— Kelseyleigh Reber

A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of…

— William Ellery Channing

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated…

— Sallust

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the…

— Milan Kundera

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

— Paul Theroux

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

— D. H. Lawrence

“The affair is over, but at least things have gone somewhere, if only into oblivion. And maybe oblivion is what I wanted…

— Sarah Manguso

“Your life is your own, Rainie. So is your death. And oblivion...? That's not an option, I'm afraid. -Death”

— Neil Gaiman

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to…

— Khalil

“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.”

— Remy de Gourmont

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

— James Thurber

“Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.”

— Sorin Cerin

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

— Anna Seward

“And as much as I was dying to know, I also knew that there was bliss in oblivion.”

— Cora Carmack

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion.

— Anne Reeve Aldrich

“This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

— J. M. Coetzee

“...he'd made friends with the oblivion found in dreamless sleep." ~Aidan”

— Stephanie Stamm

There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe