Oblivion Quotes · Page 6

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

— Anonymous

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

— Benjamin Carson

“I kiss her, the ancient ground shakes She kisses back, it explodes into oblivion.”

— PrinceOfPoets

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“Oblivion and significance/brush our bones, leave us weeping for strangers.”

— Carl Adamshick

“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”

— Sophie Jordan

Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the…

— Margaret Cavendish

“I believe there is no heaven or hell. There are no devils or angels. No afterlife or salvation. My soul won't be…

— Bhavya Kaushik

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like…

— D. H. Lawrence

I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without…

— Alton Tobey

That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than…

— David Foster Wallace

“The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world…

— Hannah Arendt

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps…

— William Shakespeare

The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause…

— James Longstreet

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Thank you“ might be the hardest word to say. We may wonder, what can be so castrating about embracing gratitude? Some think…

— Erik Pevernagie

I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly…

— Elizabeth Smart

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the…

— Haruki Murakami

With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets…

— Angela Carter

I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than…

— Sufjan Stevens

Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned…

— Fernando Pessoa

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know…

— Blaise Pascal

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

— George Meredith

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

— Dan Savage

On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.

— Karen Marie Moning

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

— Richard M. Nixon

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts…

— Gloria Steinem

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

— Philip Levine

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed…

— Al Goldstein

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

— John Milton

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

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird…

— Tahereh Mafi

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

— Thomas Browne

“Her thighs are oiled and dark, and oblivion never felt as good as it does now,”

— Andre Dubus III

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

— Augusten Burroughs

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

— Daniel Libeskind

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

— Richard Le Gallienne