Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one… — Danilo Kis Copy Share Image
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose. — Alexander Borodin Copy Share Image
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with… — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory… — William James Copy Share Image
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
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 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
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. — Chuck Palahniuk 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
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 Copy Share Image
“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.” — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins, And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house,… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
