Oblivion Quotes
Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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 never really change.
If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
A lot of young people think they are not going to die - and that's a great thing about being a young person, is living in this carefree oblivion.
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious.
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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 impossible.
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 to ignore it.
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
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 to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
