There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion. — Anne Reeve Aldrich 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
I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion. — Susannah McCorkle 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
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will… — William Faulkner 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
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
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
If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion. — Wade MacNeil 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
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
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
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
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
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
No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.” — Marcus Aurelius 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
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
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be… — Thomas Carlyle 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
