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Tag Name "Oblivion" (205)

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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
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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
D. H. Lawrence
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Mark Twain
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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 Armand Montapert
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What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.
William Shakespeare
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I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
Tahereh Mafi
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And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.
William Shakespeare
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oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
Hannah More
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We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
Bruce Babbitt
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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.
Bill Gross
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A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.
William Ellery Channing
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The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
Mason Cooley
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Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
Terry Pratchett
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So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.
Janet Frame
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When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.
Bob Avakian
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... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.
W. G. Sebald
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One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.
Stefan Zweig
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage
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The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
William James
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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
Yann Martel
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Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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