Oblivion Quotes

253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors

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 on…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 one’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
I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’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 … 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

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