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
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of… — Kate Cann 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
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
“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
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
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
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer… — John Clare 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
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
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.” — Sorin Cerin 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
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! — Ouida 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
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
“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
“…everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget — the design of life; and good when we are forgotten… — Djuna Barnes 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
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
Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. — Jan Struther 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
“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
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
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
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