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
Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears,… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
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 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
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion. — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
“...he'd made friends with the oblivion found in dreamless sleep." ~Aidan” — Stephanie Stamm Copy Share Image
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion. — Wade MacNeil Copy Share Image
“He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion. — Susannah McCorkle 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
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
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march… — Sean MacBride Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of… — Andre Comte-Sponville 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
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
