Biographies Quote by George Steiner

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

— Philip Wylie

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor…

— Horace

“I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“She can't catch on to slumber, the relief of oblivion.”

— Nikki Gemmell

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are…

— Jeet Thayil

“Oblivion and significance/brush our bones, leave us weeping for strangers.”

— Carl Adamshick

Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress…

— Annette Curtis Klause

“Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted. Why should life come into existence only to be destroyed?…

— Joseph Lewis

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

— Anna Seward

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise…

— D. H. Lawrence

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

— John Dryden

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

— Daniel Libeskind