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Tag Name "Oblivion" (205)

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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
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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
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You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.
Frederick Lenz
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Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
Pablo Neruda
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We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
Khalil
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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.
Jacque Fresco
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
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Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
Billy Corgan
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You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave.
Robert Palmer
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
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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 Süskind
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Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.
John Green
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When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins, And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes, I shall not die, I shall not utterly die, For beauty born of beauty-- that remains.
Madison Cawein
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Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.
Jan Struther
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A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
Richard Le Gallienne
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon
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I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme [sea of oblivion], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.
Yasumasa Morimura
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There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
Bliss Carman
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People want to be loved failing that admired failing that feared failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.
Hjalmar Söderberg
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Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
Ivan Bunin
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That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.
David Foster Wallace
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I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
John Green
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.
Margaret Atwood
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