Existentialism Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is no fame, no glory, and no power that can never end. In the end, there is oblivion.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Every man has to die. Choosing oblivion is the only way of triumphing over this.”

— Shan Sa

“What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.”

— Michael Cart

“There is no better guide to this world than oblivion.”

— Sorin Cerin

“Oblivion. It is what I am always looking for.”

— Bethany Griffin

“Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.”

— Sophocles

“Terrifying encounters with the end? I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five! The remote future will be time enough to…

— Philip Roth

“I fear oblivion”

— John Green

“We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes,…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.”

— John Green