Oblivion Quotes

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Oblivion is not to be hired.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

It always came down to his freaking pride.

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?

وكيف تنساني يا كل ناسي

When you get lost in love, you become oblivious to oblivion.

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.

Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name for yourself. Life is too short to be wasted in oblivion.

Not anymore, though, " he said. "And I guess that's the one perk of loving a dead girl. She never changes.

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

Love me like today is the last day we can see stars in the sky, let us sleep under them and throw ourselves into the oblivion and never again reach out for reality.

I have dedicated my life to a doomed struggle against reality and the things that cannot be otherwise

Nothingness...there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed...

Isobel had entrusted the note to Gwen just before Baltimore. And the small scrap of paper still remained her only tangible evidence that Varen had loved her.Expect...he didn't anymore.

You loved her, " Isobel

No mark survives this place: you too will yieldto unmemory.

And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.

Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.

She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.

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

The junkie ignites his feelings with ugly synthetic substances, and the emotions that were meant to last for a lifetime burn away in full force in a couple of short years.

But still, 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 we can never rub away.

Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here, ' on the last wall of the universe.

The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

He hated himself, " Gwen said. "You just got caught in the cross fire.

Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.

He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.