Oblivion Quotes
253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors
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I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side…
— Jeffrey Wright
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You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you,…
— Frederick Lenz
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You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle…
— Frederick Lenz
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You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual…
— Frederick Lenz
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If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand,…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.
— David Jeremiah
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Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
— D. H. Lawrence
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I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed…
— Josephine Baker
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My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion…
— David Knopfler
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You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave.
— Robert Palmer
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... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We…
— Jimmy Piersall
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The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
— D. H. Lawrence
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And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.
— George Meredith
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Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.
— Will Rogers
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You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple of good takes,…
— Barry Bostwick
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When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2…
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
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Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife,…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have…
— Baltasar Gracian
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the…
— Umberto Eco
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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
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
— Dan Savage
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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
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
— James Thurber
Who Wrote These Oblivion Quotes
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