Oblivious Quotes
117 quotes by 101 authors
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Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed…
— Umberto Eco
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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
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
— Ian Mcewan
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It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of…
— Annie Dillard
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
— Khalil Gibran
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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
— Markus Zusak
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She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers…
— Henry Miller
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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him…
— Franz Kafka
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The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with…
— Isaac Asimov
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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
— Randy Pausch
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How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Rose!" I looked to my right and saw Adrian cutting across the lawn toward me, oblivious to the slush's effects on his designer shoes. "Did…
— Richelle Mead
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Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson,…
— Ruth Reichl
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Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the…
— Dara Horn
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Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was…
— Jonathan Nolan
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Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man…
— Shusaku Endo
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