Oblivion Quotes

253 Oblivion quotes by 201 unique authors

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;… — Jorge Luis Borges
the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. — John Green
The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud. — J. G. Ballard
The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even… — Melina Marchetta
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ... — Ian Mcewan
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the… — Bernard Beckett
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories… — Haruki Murakami
Oblivion cures the old wounds. — Dejan Stojanovic
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted… — Jeet Thayil
In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it… — Milan Kundera
...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever… — Richard Brautigan
One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against… — Stefan Zweig
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion,… — Hermann Hesse
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark. — John Green
Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost… — Kami Garcia
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. — Jose Saramago
There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we… — Roger Ebert
Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option. — Ian Mcewan
People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The… — Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg
He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and… — David Gerrold
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will… — D. H. Lawrence
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes… — Francis Beaumont
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . .… — Unknown Author

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