All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.” — John Green Copy Share Image
If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion. — Jerome Corsi Copy Share Image
“Tell me again what you said at the revel,” he says, climbing over me, his body against mine. “What?” I can barely… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
“We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.” — Marc Augé Copy Share Image
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed… — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
