An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.” — Shreya Gupta Copy Share Image
Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered. — Theda Bara Copy Share Image
Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion. — Wade MacNeil Copy Share Image
"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
“Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow So death is life's forgetfulness” — Mihai Eminescu Copy Share Image
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that… — Pierre Péju Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“He had yet to discover what destroyed that desire. But he did not dwell on it. He thought rather of whatever had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words,… — Kelseyleigh Reber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“But humans can be wounded by their own oblivion, too. They do not see it, but I do. It happens all the… — Shelby Van Pelt Copy Share Image
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Now more than ever I wish I had a cup of oblivion. But there is no mercy for the people who have… — Poppet Copy Share Image
All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
