Oblivion Quotes

253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. — William Wordsworth
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm. — Anna Seward
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal… — Elizabeth Smart
We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future. — Jacque Fresco
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower… — Bliss Carman
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much… — Billy Corgan
We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and other states who… — Mel White
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened… — Richard Brautigan
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. — D. H. Lawrence
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free… — Noam Chomsky
Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion.… — Robert Greene
Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only… — Winston Churchill
Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the… — Thomas Browne
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. — Pliny the Elder
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone… — Khalil Gibran
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold. — Gloria Steinem
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… — Thomas Carlyle
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. — Richard Le Gallienne
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. — Max Beerbohm
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux
They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their… — Frederick Lenz

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