Oblivion Quotes · Page 3

I made up my mind I was going to walk that thin line between fame and oblivion.

— Orson Bean

All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.

— David Jeremiah

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

— Paul Theroux

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to…

— Khalil

“Your life is your own, Rainie. So is your death. And oblivion...? That's not an option, I'm afraid. -Death”

— Neil Gaiman

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

— Richard de Bury

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

— J. M. Coetzee

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of…

— Yasumasa Morimura

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound…

— Mary Baker Eddy

But I know that trying to black out my past with oblivion will just damage my future. I made the decision to…

— Jack Monroe

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in…

— Hermann Hesse

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish…

— Lewis Black

Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd…

— John B. S. Haldane

“But humans can be wounded by their own oblivion, too. They do not see it, but I do. It happens all the…

— Shelby Van Pelt

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of…

— Walter Savage Landor

“Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save…

— Alan Moore

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are…

— Jonathan Kozol

“I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if…

— Melina Marchetta

As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from…

— Dario Robleto

“Tell me again what you said at the revel,” he says, climbing over me, his body against mine. “What?” I can barely…

— Holly Black

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the…

— Milan Kundera

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated…

— Sallust

“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.”

— Remy de Gourmont

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

— Anna Seward

“Her thighs are oiled and dark, and oblivion never felt as good as it does now,”

— Andre Dubus III

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

— Augusten Burroughs

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

— Richard Le Gallienne

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

— Pablo Neruda

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

— Daniel Libeskind

There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed…

— Al Goldstein

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

— John Milton

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

— Richard M. Nixon

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

— Philip Levine

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

— Dan Savage

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

— George Meredith

“I kiss her, the ancient ground shakes She kisses back, it explodes into oblivion.”

— PrinceOfPoets