Oblivion Quotes · Page 4

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

— Pablo Neruda

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

— Taylor Caldwell

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

— Tom Cruise

“Perma-grin. Oblivion. Love isn't blind. It's blinding”

— Ralph Hartman

“Don't hurry. Oblivion will be there eventually.”

— Ed Wood

“No mark survives this place: you too will yield to unmemory.”

— Mathew Henderson

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

— John Dryden

“Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.”

— Jess C. Scott

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

— D. H. Lawrence

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

— Robert Macfarlane

“Only the unimaginative fear death when it's oblivion that cuts deepest.”

— Sergio De La Pava

“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.”

— Marcus Aurelius

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

— George Steiner

I made up my mind I was going to walk that thin line between fame and oblivion.

— Orson Bean

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

— D. H. Lawrence

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The…

— Harry Chapin

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to…

— Jacque Fresco

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

“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

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his…

— Patrick Süskind

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound…

— Mary Baker Eddy

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of…

— Yasumasa Morimura

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the…

— John Huston

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of…

— Tacitus

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

— Khalil Gibran

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated…

— Sallust

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the…

— Milan Kundera

We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived…

— Marcel Proust

“...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood…

— Michelle Latiolais

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know…

— Blaise Pascal

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

— Pablo Neruda

“Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?”

— Sorin Cerin

“Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.”

— Sophocles

“I had heartsickness, shame, and fear bordering on panic, and no complete escape any longer except in oblivion.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

— W. G. Sebald

“There is no fame, no glory, and no power that can never end. In the end, there is oblivion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.”

— Lionel Suggs