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 Copy Share Image
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the… — John Huston Copy Share Image
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos… — Clive Barker 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
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion. — Mason Cooley 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 they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. — Max Beerbohm 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
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
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
We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers… — Sergey Biryuzov Copy Share Image
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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