Oblivion Quotes

253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any… — Tallulah Bankhead
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation. — Benjamin Carson
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys… — Raymond Chandler
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy… — Fred Allen
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower… — D. H. Lawrence
Kisses honeyed by oblivion. — George Eliot
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or… — D. H. Lawrence
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed… — Seneca the Younger
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended… — Euripides
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. — Philip Wylie
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe… — R. Buckminster Fuller
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary… — Samuel Johnson
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from… — Robert Fulton
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams,… — Fernando Pessoa
Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion. — Ivan Bunin
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by.… — Euripides
I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is… — Harry Chapin
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to… — Victor Hugo
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without… — Ambrose Bierce
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion… — Albert Einstein

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