Quotes About Oblivious

#1. But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The summer was long gone, but I hadn't noticed until then.

Olivia Sudjic

#2. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.

Stephen Richards

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

Debasish Mridha

#4. Her last boyfriend had been homicidal and her current one was oblivious to the fact that she was a vampire.

Richelle Mead

#5. Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

William Shakespeare

#7. When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Rollo May

#8. Somewhere along the seashore, a strange wind blows over the ocean, and twenty oblivious boys simultaneously look up from their surfboards.

Sarah Ockler

#9. Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.

C.K. Kelly Martin

#10. Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.

Estelle

#11. The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#12. Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Kamala Harris

#13. I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything ...

Reinhold Messner

#14. Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

Jaggi Vasudev

#15. Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.

Bonnie D. Parkin

#16. As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just the same, in spite of her heartbreak. Her

Margaret Mitchell

#17. I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty."

"Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily,

Raymond E. Feist

#18. Maybe you're dead inside and don't even know it.

Bryant McGill

#19. They walk slowly toward each other, their gazes locked, as if they exist in their own world oblivious to the rest of us.

Rachel Morgan

#20. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

William Faulkner

#22. If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

Caitlin Doughty

#23. It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.

George Clooney

#24. This was all chemistry ever was: two people's silent selves invisibly aligning while their noisy selves carried on, oblivious.

Alethea Black

#25. I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, "At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?" She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#26. You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

Damien Hirst

#27. They soared with ease, basking in electromagnetic rays from the star Sol, biding their time, grouping, preparing. The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.

Douglas Adams

#28. I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#29. You're the one who's oblivious. Because there's nothing brotherly about the way you make me feel.

A.G. Howard

#30. The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.

Gina McKee

#31. I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional. These two identities had always been on a collision course. But I was oblivious to that fact until after the crash.

Tiffany Dufu

#32. If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Markus Zusak

#33. Austin was engrossed in some mobile gaming device. "No, no, bad portal," he scolded, totally oblivious to the world. "Stop - evil - eurgh! Suck my flagellated balls, douchenozzle!

Robyn Schneider

#34. In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.

Eric Drooker

#35. Up the hill, sheep bleat, oblivious to human empires rising and falling.

David Mitchell

#36. Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.

Marco Rubio

#37. I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

Adam McKay

#38. I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.

Billy Collins

#39. I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on ... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

Kelli White

#40. Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive. It's not their responsibility to figure out where the rent is coming from.

Ann Patchett

#41. I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can't listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen.

Irene Tomkinson

#42. I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

Willard Scott

#43. Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

Fat Joe

#44. I'm saying it's totally oblivious to how people feel. Take the ocean, for instance. You can love it, but it doesn't love you back. It will suck you under and steal your breath and beauty can make you cry, or that the sound of the tide coming in at night is the best lullaby you ever heard.

D. Anne Love

#45. [On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.

Laura Kightlinger

#46. You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

Jon Lovitz

#47. [Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

John Carroll

#48. I guard my existence, sheltered by distance. Hidden and masked I parade, everyone oblivious to the grand charade.

Tina J. Richardson

#49. The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

Angelus Silesius

#50. Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasn't deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyote's daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious.

Patricia Briggs

#51. I had forgotten I was alone; I sat there, waiting for nothing, oblivious to the time.

Andre Gide

#52. We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

Bill Maher

#53. I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

Margaret Heffernan

#54. People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

David Salle

#55. You are an impertinent wench! Do you not know the Black Lion eats three girls such as you each day afore dinner?" Oblivious to the staring people around them, she put a finger on his lower lip. "I do not find that a horrible way to die at all," she said gently.

Jude Deveraux

#56. The dead are never still, they exist just beyond the corners of our eye, in the barren wasteland beyond our own phantasmagoria, and we, for the most part, remain oblivious to their plight.

David Brian

#57. He seemed as oblivious to it as he probably was to the meaning of the word.

Melody Malone

#58. Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing.

Anna Hamilton

#59. Negative thoughts and emotions are what obstruct our most basic aspiration - to be happy and to avoid suffering. When we act under their influence, we become oblivious to the impact our actions have on others: they are thus the cause of our destructive behavior both toward others and to ourselves.

Dalai Lama XIV

#60. Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.

Rivers Cuomo

#61. Some people think God should in some way come to you and assist you, should answer your prayers. Why? It exists in perfect ecstasy beyond the dualistic consciousness. It's totally oblivious to you. It has no interest in your life or your death - it doesn't matter.

Frederick Lenz

#62. Zoom Zoom said Mr Photon oblivious to the mere mortal problems of math

Steve Merrick

#63. Canst thou not ...
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous
Stuff
Which weights upon the heart?

William Shakespeare

#64. Destroy the traces. I'd never tried to do that. Instead I'd lived in their midst for thirty years, oblivious, a blind man fancying himself invisible.

Jonathan Lethem

#65. I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

Joe Greene

#66. Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is oblivious of age or gender

Rodney Compton

#67. What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.

Paul Wesley

#68. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

Nikola Tesla

#69. Guys may be oblivious to, well, almost everything, but you can't tell me they don't know what the shirtless, barefoot thing does to a woman. They know. Sneaky bastards.

S.E. Hall

#70. You ever notice how the people who most need to see or read something are the most oblivious or resentful of its existence?

Ryan Quinn

#71. I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.

John Clare

#72. Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Ann Patchett

#73. Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

T. S. Eliot

#74. She dropped miserably on the first chair she came to and sat there staring through the oriel, oblivious of Good Luck's frantic purrs of joy and Banjo's savage glares of protest at her occupancy of his chair.

L.M. Montgomery

#75. I often don't answer, but I like receiving them," said one woman, who seemed oblivious to how ridiculous this statement sounded.

Aziz Ansari

#76. The single static note amidst the swirl of activity was Grandmother deShiel, who sat small and hunched on the cast-iron garden seat outside the library, lost in her cobwebbed memories and completely oblivious to the round glass lanterns being strung up in the trees around her -

Kate Morton

#77. George was captivated by her. She was a pip, as George's father might have said. But what he saw quickly, what he was sure Noah was oblivious to, Ellie was very like Noah's late wife. She was unique, confident, funny and impossibly positive. Noah

Robyn Carr

#78. It's your choice now," he whispered in my ear, making the hairs at the back of my neck stand on end. "I will bed you. That is not the choice, but whether or not you wish to experience my touch or to be oblivious. It's in my power to grant you either.

Cristina Rayne

#79. In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

Frederick Lenz

#80. Avery's tone was grand and high-pitched." And, since I've been hanging out with you, Dad's decided I'm on good behavior now."
"Poor oblivious bastard," murmured Christian.

Richelle Mead

#81. I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.

Agyness Deyn

#82. No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

Olga Kurylenko

#83. Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.

Frederick Lenz

#84. I have a keen sense of the oblivious

Josh Stern

#85. The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

Victor Hugo

#86. Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

Bill Kraus

#87. I closed my eyes and tried to discover where the happy half of me was hiding. I felt the tears trickling through my tightly closed eyelids. I felt Whisper's claws tugging at my jeans. I wanted to be all alone in an attic like Skellig with just the owls and the moonlight and an oblivious heart.

David Almond

#88. Stalwart Zeno seemed oblivious, that faith in his daughter being alive after more than forty days did not compute with faith that Brett Kincaid would soon be arrested for a crime involving his daughter.

Joyce Carol Oates

#89. The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

Gore Vidal

#90. You really are Captain Oblivious.

Lee Davidson

#91. In Beauvoir's experience Darwin was way wrong. The fittest didn't survive, they were killed by the idiocy of their neighbors, who continued to bumble along oblivious.

Louise Penny

#92. Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi, we are all like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. No one flinches.
We all float face-down.

Brandon Boyd

#93. The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Ian McEwan

#94. The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

Ford Madox Ford

#95. A lot of the things I find funniest about people are their shortcomings that they're oblivious to, but that they're constantly reminding everyone around them of.

Emile Hirsch

#96. Slippers was asleep on the bed, curled up and blissfully oblivious to her suffering as cats usually were.

Amy Hutchinson

#97. You've got a great ass," he said, never taking his eyes from mine as we walked, oblivious to anyone watching us. "Your screams when I fuck you? I like that shit, too. The noises you make when I drive my cock balls deep and you ask for more? Fuck, I seriously like it ... a lot.

Amelia Hutchins

#98. Nostalgia washes over me with tons of memors and lifetime rolled on this land. Every oblivious memory from the childhood wraps open in the fragrance of these busy roads and familiar land, long signals, irritating traffic,honking cars,rushing people,excessive pollution defining Delhi at its best.

Parul Wadhwa

#99. The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

Anuj

#100. It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had written a letter to Betsy Talbot Blackwell, warning her that one of her guest editors was on the brink of a nervous breakdown.

Elizabeth Winder