Oblivion Quotes

253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors

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 can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’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
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Mark Twain
…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another.… — Richard Matheson
What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of… — Cormac McCarthy
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and… — Philip Pullman
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have… — William Shakespeare
So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans… — William Shakespeare
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion. — Fiona Apple
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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