If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky 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
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding… — Horace Copy Share Image
“We are put together in such a way that although we can be pushed and pulled and drowsied by flickering images, we… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
“Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted. Why should life come into existence only to… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault 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 darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I wanted to make pictures that contradicted themselves. I wanted to put one picture on top of another so that there were… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of… — Anna Komnene Copy Share Image
Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Why is my love for you, dyed in wool? What is the hindrance to moving on? Why in love have I been… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
I'm proud of The Hangover, but to be in movies like this, which are really the only places I can get work,… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little.… — Nicholas Copernicus Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of… — Kate Cann Copy Share Image
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“…everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget — the design of life; and good when we are forgotten… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! — Ouida Copy Share Image
Are you heard: it's to the black and all the damage fading in the oblivion mirror. — Avantasia Copy Share Image
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
