Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Oblivion is something unique, an entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before. I decided this was a project I really wanted… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
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 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
What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text… — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play… — Walter M. Miller, Jr 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
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 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
I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The Poem About Taking out the Trash In the vast emptiness of darkness, Stars are being born and are burning out; Galaxies… — Eric Overby 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 surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion. — Andy Irons Copy Share Image
Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“There is no fame, no glory, and no power that can never end. In the end, there is oblivion.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I had heartsickness, shame, and fear bordering on panic, and no complete escape any longer except in oblivion.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.” — Marcus Aurelius 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
“Only the unimaginative fear death when it's oblivion that cuts deepest.” — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes.… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
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
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