Oblivion Quotes

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

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

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

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.

What's the Matter with the Mill?

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.]

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

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

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.

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

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

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

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

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.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

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.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions.

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

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

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.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

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

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

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

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

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

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

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of 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?