Oblivion Quotes

253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors

I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility… — John Green
Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when… — Blaise Pascal
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks… — Janet Frame
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with… — Audrey Niffenegger
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. — Chuck Palahniuk
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers… — Oscar Wilde
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon… — Francis Bacon
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. — Audrey Niffenegger
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely… — Stephen King
As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that. — Anne Rice
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they… — Hannah Arendt
Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. — Czeslaw Milosz
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly… — John Kennedy Toole
...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into… — W G Sebald
Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I… — Kevin Brooks
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're not scared of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation. — J M Coetzee
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one… — Shirley Jackson
The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed… — Kim Harrison
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit… — Audrey Niffenegger
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,… — John Milton
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I… — Georgette Heyer
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you… — Yann Martel

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