Top 100 Quotes About Oblivion
#1. Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow
So death is life's forgetfulness
Mihai Eminescu
#2. Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
Philip Levine
#3. There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
Hannah Arendt
#4. I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion
Catrina Burgess
#5. Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.
Mason Cooley
#6. Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
Jorge Luis Borges
#7. But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the hand of God, every man was stricken for his rebellion, with an oblivion of his former language.
Thomas Hobbes
#8. She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.
Jess C. Scott
#9. Lists had become my anchors. They got me through the days. The oblivion of sleep got me through the nights.
Karen Marie Moning
#10. 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.
Raymond Chandler
#11. Augustus half smiled. Because you're beautiful, I enjoy looking at beaufitul people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence ... I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything.
John Green
#12. Written for the Homeless
My soul does not find mercy -
Somewhere on the bank of oblivion;
There,
Where hunger freezes my bones to death.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#13. That moment, the music screeched to a halt. There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion - trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion.
Sara Gruen
#14. Then what is your name?" asked the announcer, his amphibious face wrinkled in clear agitation - or constipation. Hard to tell. The reminder that he didn't know his own name bothered him, but also gave him the perfect reply. "Call me Oblivion." "More
Eve Langlais
#15. What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?
Vladimir Nabokov
#17. The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
Alfred A. Montapert
#18. How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.
Marcus Aurelius
#19. We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
Olga Kurylenko
#20. We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
Bruce Babbitt
#21. Whatever you do, with whom you do it or whether you do it alone, and when, and how, and why, to what mysterious end - it's balanced against nothing, against Death and forgetting. You balanced against oblivion.
Joyce Carol Oates
#23. We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and other states who see these public affirmations as another step towards the country's oblivion.
Mel White
#24. Those men and women who follow the path of the Perfect Matrimony finally gain the bliss of entering Nirvana, which is to be in oblivion of the world and men forever...
Samael Aun Weor
#25. Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on ... there was something touching and appealing about her.
John Huston
#26. I'd like to get this lunch through with so I can go fuck this beautiful, hot, sexy as hell woman into blissful oblivion all afternoon.
Deborah Ann
#27. What makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.
Richard Brautigan
#28. You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple of good takes, and then you move on, so you have to be very spontaneous as an actor and have done your homework, and I like that.
Barry Bostwick
#29. I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it.
Gillian Flynn
#30. My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
David Knopfler
#31. For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
Jeanne Moreau
#32. For we die every day; oblivion thrives 520 Not on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe lives, And our best yesterdays are now foul piles Of crumpled names, phone numbers and foxed files.
Vladimir Nabokov
#33. Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Antoine Rivarol
#34. There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
Anne Reeve Aldrich
#35. Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.
Meredith Duran
#36. It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.
Sarah Swainson
#37. On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?
Thomas French
#38. Go ahead, God, you fat, filthy motherfucker, lightning-bolt my ass into oblivion if you're so tough!
Jeri Smith-Ready
#39. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Chuck Palahniuk
#40. Her real passion in life was the perfection of a filing system beside which all other filing systems should sink into oblivion. She dreamed of such a system at night.
Agatha Christie
#41. He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.
Paul Russell
#42. As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate.
Steve Erickson
#43. First, I'm not pestering you. I'm trying to make it clear that I want to fuck you into oblivion. Second, there is no other woman that I'm interested in. Clear enough for you?
Sawyer Bennett
#44. Evil is a kind of oblivion, having destroyed everything on its way there. I
Robin McKinley
#45. Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
Hannah More
#46. 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.
John Green
#47. Only the unimaginative fear death when it's oblivion that cuts deepest.
Sergio De La Pava
#49. Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.
Gillian Flynn
#50. He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.
Patrick Suskind
#51. People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Claude Debussy
#52. Oblivion was increasingly attractive, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking could even begin to solve the problem?
Margaret Atwood
#53. What do you mean, Araluen? Death?"
Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.
John Flanagan
#54. She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act.
The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion
John Saul
#55. Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.
Adam Nevill
#56. It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
#57. I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.
Jimmy Piersall
#58. I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
Alexander Borodin
#59. Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.
Brent Weeks
#60. Considerably more Polish Jews resident in France were killed than French Jews resident in France. Statelessness followed these thirty thousands murdered Polish Jews to Paris, to Drancy, to Auschwitz, to the gas chambers, to the crematoria, and to oblivion.
Timothy Snyder
#61. Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
D.H. Lawrence
#62. He never asks for endearment, all quiet,
Only gazes at me all the time,
And he bears with a blissful smile
This distressing oblivion of mine.
Anna Akhmatova
#63. Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be. Too many years wasted in strict adherence to fabricated laws could damn a religion to oblivion.
Kirsten Beyer
#64. Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#65. He could feel the shape of his eyeballs beneath his lids, round and hot, tasty bits of jelly rolling restless to and fro, looking vainly for oblivion, while the rising sun turned his lids a dark and bloody red.
Diana Gabaldon
#66. -Meeting people- make them relevant to yourself, the Moses that will bring u out of oddity, oblivion and the Joshua to follow up
Ikechukwu Joseph
#67. I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I might be dying. And it was being alone' ... 'To me,' she said, 'the scariest thing is oblivion. Being, and then not being.
Patricia Gaffney
#68. Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
Pablo Neruda
#69. Soon levees up and down the river were popping like buttons off a tight shirt. At Mounds Landing, Mississippi, a hundred black workers, kept at their posts by men with rifles, were swept to oblivion when a levee gave way. The coroner, for reasons unstated, recorded just two deaths.
Bill Bryson
#70. How about we never talk about what happened and why I feel the way I feel. We just pretend that everything is fine and I just scrub myself red every night, allowing my mind and body to retreat into oblivion. Yup sounds like the perfect plan.
Astrid Lee Miles
#71. Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
D.H. Lawrence
#72. As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson
#73. It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
Claude Debussy
#74. 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.
Oscar Wilde
#75. Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow
Satyananda Saraswati
#76. The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
Mason Cooley
#78. For a man would know the necessary choices that have to be made when one is facing one's oblivion.
Patrick Ness
#79. - What's with this obsession over fire?
- It draws you into drunken oblivion.
Ophelia Callens
#80. Time oozed away, flowing like lava erupting lazily from a vent, slowly and impossible to stop, covering everything into oblivion under its dark layer of things that were and will never be again.
Massimo Marino
#81. The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.
Kim Harrison
#82. The pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful.
Amin Maalouf
#83. For the core of religion is the twinned principle of arrogance and fear. Fear of oblivion. Fear of an unfair life and an arbitrary universe. Fear of there simply being nothing, no great and grand scheme to existence. The fear, ultimately, of being powerless.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#84. Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
Paul Theroux
#85. There was existence in oblivion; there is you in oblivion.
Pushpa Rana
#86. Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.
Andrew Lam
#87. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
#88. There is no better guide to this world than oblivion.
Sorin Cerin
#89. I dream about oblivion like other people dream of good sex ...
Junot Diaz
#90. 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.
Albert Camus
#91. If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.
Jerome Corsi
#92. It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
Carolyn Murphy
#93. If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.
J.D. Stroube
#94. This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
Tacitus
#95. If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.
Chiang Kai-shek
#96. It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion
Mary Baker Eddy
#97. At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.
Jeff VanderMeer
#98. And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?
Pablo Neruda
#99. I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#100. Along the Chilean coast, with cold and winter,
when rain falls washing the weeks.
Listen: solitude becomes music once more,
and it seems its appearance is that of air, of rain,
that time, something with wave and wings, passes by,
grows. And the harp awakes from oblivion.
Pablo Neruda
