Oblivion Quotes

253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors

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 — 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
No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION,… — Melvin J. Ballard
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. — Doris Lessing
We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion. — Bruce Babbitt
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it — Taylor Caldwell
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs. — Andrew Lam
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth;… — Richard de Bury
I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion. — Andy Irons
Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without… — Ian Caldwell
Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion. — Nicole Kidman
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. — Khalil
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is. — Frederick Buechner
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough,… — Danilo Kis
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up. — William Shakespeare
The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media,… — Charles Krauthammer
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. — Ambrose Bierce

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