Oblivion Quotes

253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. — Milan Kundera
I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to… — Stephenie Meyer
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking… — Thomas Hardy
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible… — Stephen Fry
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. — Pablo Neruda
ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST,… — Terry Pratchett
Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re… — Haruki Murakami
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the… — Pentti Linkola
But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted… — Margaret Atwood
On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion. — Karen Marie Moning
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the… — Richard Dawkins
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering… — John Green
Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as… — Annette Curtis Klause
You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of… — Neil Gaiman
I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live. — Augusten Burroughs
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit… — Marcus Aurelius
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or… — Anton Chekhov
That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even… — David Foster Wallace
What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all.… — John Flanagan
If I'm going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I'll be able to wash all the damage done by the tears from my… — Suzanne Collins
I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the… — John Green
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins… — Oscar Wilde
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you… — John Green
Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear… — John Green

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