Quotes About Oblivion

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.

he felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten.

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.

The inequity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

I had read my way not to knowledge but into an inscrutable oblivion.

Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition.

He longed for the oblivion at the end of it, but lacked the courage to face the fall

Life, despite their frantic yoohooings, had passed them by.

the man who seeks intoxication, in whatever form, has given up hope except in oblivion.

There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day. A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of 'pleasure'. That is to say he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide; the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

one must forget the past—more accurately, one must remember the necessity of forgetting.

Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together.

The senior matriculation exams obliterate everything. Even, it seems to me, if a war were on in Canada, I'd be found studying like deaf Beethoven playing his piano while Vienna burned.

Life is not a dream. Watch out! Watch out! Watch out! We fall down stairs and eat the moist earth, or we climb up to the snow's edge with the choir of dead dahlias. But there is no oblivion, no dream: raw flesh. Kisses tie mouths in a tangle of new veins and those who are hurt will hurt without rest and those who are frightened by death will carry it on their shoulders.

But there is no oblivion, no dream: raw flesh. Kisses tie mouths in a tangle of new veins and those who are hurt will hurt without rest…" from "Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne)

Death, in the form of necromantic magic, acts as a counterbalance to Life. It is an unavoidable force that breeds despair in mortal hearts and pushes everything toward a state of entropic decay and eventual oblivion.

El cel no és pas humà, però deu haver-hi alguna cosa més que el cel, la compassió i l'amor, però jo he permès que s'esborressin de la memòria i caiguessin en l'oblit.

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.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

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

La noticia de la muerte del famoso Duque de Otranto no despierta, de momento, gran curiosidad en el mundo. Únicamente un humo delgado y pálido de recuerdo se levanta fugazmente de su nombre extinguido y se deshace, casi sin dejar rastro, en el cielo apacible del tiempo.