Oblivion Quotes

253 quotes by 201 authors

I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I canâ€™t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because thereâ€™s… — Sufjan Stevens
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam'… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss… — Yusef Komunyakaa
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury
Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion. — D. H. Lawrence
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy
Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count â€¦ Good [investment] ideas should… — Bill Gross
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and… — James Gleick
I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion. — Susannah McCorkle
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices. — Michel de Certeau
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between… — Stephen Potter
Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. — Jan Struther
Ignorance is not bliss â€” it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. — Al Goldstein
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. — George Steiner
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. — Robert Macfarlane
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as… — Fernand Braudel
Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul… — Saint Augustine
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all… — Elizabeth Kolbert

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