Quotes About Oblivion

Be deaf! You do not need to hear or, hearing, you do not need to remember. How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the

He began to realize that there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace - no remains, nothing, and an entire planet for a tomb.

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won't see a thing..

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

What language the people here speak, or what name they give to the place, will not be recorded for posterity.

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.

cousa é não achar já quem se lembre de meus pais, e de que modo me há de encarar o próprio esquecimento.

Não venho restaurá-la. Esquecer é uma necessidade. A vida é uma lousa, em que o destino, para escrever um novo caso, precisa apagar o caso escrito. Obra de lápis e esponja. Não, não venho restaurá-la. Há milhares de ações tão bonitas, ou ainda mais bonitas do que a do Nicolau, e comidas do esquecimento.

He had even forgotten

We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.

He was aware of a desire at once for complete glutted oblivion and for an innocent youthful fling. "Alas," a voice seemed to be saying also in his ear, "my poor little child, you do not feel any of these things really, only lost, only homeless.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

All this talk of oblivion, of wanting nothing and becoming nobody, seems rather contradictory from a Buddhist sense. The Buddha did all this himself and he became so much a nobody that he became famous, the biggest nobody of them all. And he will never disappear, because fame has made him immortal. But I do admire him for his attitude and discipline. He was a good Indian son.

Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten.

As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

wasn't dementia a fail-safe and soothing oblivion of the machine to its own decay?

Why are we so careless that we let our own histories die without even noticing?

It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet, unlike Alexander, whom she rivals as the theme of romance and legend, Cleopatra is known to us through overwhelmingly hostile sources. The reward of the 'good' woman in Rome was likely to be praise in stereotyped phrases; in Athens she won oblivion.

Suppose, then, that after the greatest , most passionate vividness and tender glory, oblivion is all were have to expect, the big blank of death. What options present themselves? One option is to train yourself gradually into oblivion so that no great change has taken place when you have died. Another option is to increase the bitterness of life so that death is a desirable release. (In this the rest of mankind will fully collaborate.)

In the end, we'll all face oblivion.