If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers.… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue.… — John Green Copy Share Image
So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“To my surprise, the sensation of query filled my stomach, spreading through to every corner. This was followed by each point of… — J. Cameron McClain Copy Share Image
They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one… — Bliss Carman 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
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
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
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
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