Oblivion Quotations

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

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.

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

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

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Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

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History records the successes of men with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is the position of small men overwhelmed by obstacles.

True fragments of history have re-emerged intact from the oblivion of time and the Earth.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

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.

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.

All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.

A person lacking in enthusiasm is miserable,lives an insignificant life and goes into oblivion ultimately.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

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.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

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.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

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.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

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.

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

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

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle. [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

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

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?

Oblivion is not to be hired.

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.

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

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed

Kisses honeyed by 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.

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.

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.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.