Oblivion Quotes · Page 4

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

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

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

“The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that…

— Pierre Péju

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love…

— Kami Garcia

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but…

— Francis Bacon

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of…

— John Kennedy Toole

What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been…

— William Maxwell

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation.…

— Khalil Gibran

Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age…

— Anton Chekhov

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree…

— Samuel Johnson

“I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners…

— Luis Buñuel

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is…

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

— PrinceOfPoets

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

— Benjamin Carson

“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”

— Sophie Jordan

“Oblivion and significance/brush our bones, leave us weeping for strangers.”

— Carl Adamshick

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the…

— John Green

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

— Anonymous

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

— Rajneesh

“I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.”

— Anonymous

“And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.”

— John Green

“Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow So death is life's forgetfulness”

— Mihai Eminescu

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

— Will Rogers

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

— Anonymous

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

— Jose Saramago

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

— Baltasar Gracian

“Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.”

— Shreya Gupta