There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget… — Alphonse de Lamartine 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
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 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
So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took,… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation..… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
“When the murmuring of love swells the river of our inner and overflows the boundaries of our emotions, the banks of oblivion… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. — John Green Copy Share Image
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not… — Jimmy Piersall Copy Share Image
You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other… — Jeanne Moreau 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
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign… — Haruki Murakami 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
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image