Oblivion Quotes

253 quotes by 201 authors

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
Oblivion is something unique, an entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before. I decided this was a project I really wanted to work on… — Sean Bean
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than onâ€¦there… — John Huston
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the… — Oscar Wilde
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve. — Edward Abbey
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and… — Fernando Pessoa
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. — Rajneesh
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of… — Winston Churchill
While obsession with oneâ€™s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness. — Unknown Author
If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion. — Jerome Corsi
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. — Horace Greeley
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he… — William Faulkner
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call… — Logan Pearsall Smith
To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men… — W G Sebald

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