Oblivion Quotes · Page 7

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

— Baltasar Gracian

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

— George A. Smith

If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.

— Wade MacNeil

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

— Will Rogers

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

— Jan Struther

To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.

— Theda Bara

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

— Dan Savage

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

— George Meredith

Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the…

— Doris Lessing

“She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone…

— Lois Lowry

“I also wonder fearfully what will happen when the only friend I have ever had, the only one who knows everything without…

— Muriel Barbery

“He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through…

— Stephen King

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

I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without…

— Alton Tobey

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

“Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save…

— Alan Moore

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

What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Local fog in Venice has a name: nebbia. It obliterates all reflections ... and everything that has a shape: buildings, people, colonnades,…

— Joseph Brodsky

No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who…

— Bob Avakian

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also…

— George Orwell

The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with…

— N. C. Wyeth

So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the…

— Margaret Cavendish

On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.

— Karen Marie Moning

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

— Anonymous

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

— Rajneesh

“so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the…

— John Green

Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”

— Sophie Jordan

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“Oblivion and significance/brush our bones, leave us weeping for strangers.”

— Carl Adamshick

“I kiss her, the ancient ground shakes She kisses back, it explodes into oblivion.”

— PrinceOfPoets

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

— Benjamin Carson

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird…

— Tahereh Mafi

There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.

— Harry Dean Stanton

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

— Joseph Kosinski

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

— Richard Le Gallienne