Quotes About Obliviousness

#1. this particular category of asshole compounds temerity with obliviousness.

Eduardo Sacheri

#2. It occurred to Graham that here, finally, was the similarity between the two women he'd chosen to marry: they were both totally unrufflable, one out of iciness, the other out of obliviousness.

Katherine Heiny

#3. The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#4. The pain she experienced from the almost absolute obliviousness to her existence that was shown by the pair of them became at times half dissipated by her sense of its humourousness.

Thomas Hardy

#5. I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

Jane Blalock

#6. A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child's playful obliviousness.

Josh Waitzkin

#7. [Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.

Ernest Becker

#8. Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.

Sonya Hartnett

#9. The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let's be as miserly as the sea.

Arthur Rimbaud

#10. Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

Gore Vidal

#11. Free of all responsibility or restraint, in the sheer obliviousness of dreams, he had lived like a happy pagan; and now he must go back to the drear existence of a mediaeval monk, beneath the prompting of an obscure sense of duty.

H.P. Lovecraft

#12. Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. the three of us in that state where the very bones and muscles are too tired to rest, when the attenuated and invincible spirit has changed and shaped even hopelessness into the easy obliviousness of a worn garment

William Faulkner

#14. I seem to suffer from a very serious condition called obliviousness by proximity. It causes screaming and the occasional uncontrollable need to stomp stupid wizards for being stupid.

T.J. Klune

#15. The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

David Bentley

#16. The little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

Terry Pratchett

#17. We have gone from holding the door out of courtesy to standing before it out of obliviousness.

John Dickerson

#18. So be yourself, just don't give yourself unless you're certain he deserves that gift.

Kristen Ashley

#19. Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

Phil Cousineau

#20. I am a passionate civil libertarian.

Ted Cruz

#21. As we plotted Zeke and Sue's course, we utilized an atlas. But, if you tried to recreate the trip, it would drive you crazy since we changed the names of not only the highways, but also most of the towns.

Wodke Hawkinson

#22. without freedom of though there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Jack Russell

#23. Whoosh! went the bluebird of sarcasm, zooming miles above Dale's head.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#24. People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger

#25. Ansel sighed. You know, this is the problem with you alphas, you're so concerned about taking over the new pack that you don't notice what's happening right in front of your face.

Andrea Cremer

#26. Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him.

Elizabeth Peters

#27. You can get busy living, get busy dying, or get busy writing.

Anon

#28. To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken ... a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

Nahoko Uehashi

#29. She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free but still got treated like a rented mule.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#30. Because I Stupidly Loved Her

Mary E. Pearson

#31. Evil became invisible when it was everywhere. Like air, everyone forgot it was there until it was blowing hard enough to knock off their hat or muss up their hair.

Sean DeLauder

#32. I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Seamus Heaney