Oblivion Quotes

253 quotes by 201 authors

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical… — Sam Harris
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. — Richard M. Nixon
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school. — Dan Savage
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step,… — Charles Schumer
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? — James Thurber
For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into… — Viswanathan Anand
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. — Jorge Luis Borges
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is… — Terry Pratchett
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. — Clive Barker
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps… — Yann Martel
How come it canâ€™t fly no better than a chicken?â€™ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Canâ€™t nobody… — Toni Morrison
And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion? — Pablo Neruda
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck
Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness. — Lewis Black
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes,… — John Clare
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because… — Yann Martel
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths… — Jennifer Weiner

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