Quotes About Oblivion

Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.

Oblivion here thy wisdom is, Thy thrift, the sleep of cares; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs.

A train has a poor memory; it soon puts all behind it.

But Douglas, standing on the lawn, was seeing how it would be tomorrow, when the men would pour hot tar over the silver tracks so you would never know a trolley had ever run this way. He knew it would take as many years as he could think of now to forget the tracks, no matter how deeply buried.

We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.

recollect thee now That thou this very day hast drunk of Lethe;

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

whatever you do, with whom you do it or whether you do it alone, and when, and how, and why, to what mysterious end—it's balanced against nothing, against Death and forgetting. You balanced against oblivion.

Extraño: que cuando una luz se apaga, inmediatamente después es como si nunca hubiera existido. La oscuridad lo llena todo de nuevo, por completo.

Solace came only with darkness. When dusk yielded to the sweet oblivion of night.

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

Where does the shaped charge go when it has done its task? It flies apart, needles of steel each pursuing its own end. Scrap, seeking oblivion.

Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.

Nimeni n-o s? te ?tie, se gânde?te ea. Nimeni n-o s?-?i aminteasc? de tine, doar eu, mama ta, n-o s? uit, fiindc? n-am voie s? uit. Pentru c? to?i ceilal?i or s? te uite.

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

For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time—so too has love.

And so the Universe ended.

This," he said, "really is the absolute end, the final chilling desolation, in which the whole majestic sweep of creation becomes extinct. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the proverbial 'it.' " He dropped his voice still lower. In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear its throat. "After this," he said, "there is nothing. Void. Emptiness. Oblivion. Absolute nothing….

Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines.

Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.

It is about ten or fifteen years ago now, and happily it is all over and done with, and everyone has forgotten about it. People's memories are very short—a lucky thing, I always think.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Death is the meaning of life, the race against oblivion; man being the only animal who is conscious that he will one day die; there lies the seed of self-destruction, greed for more, even if only to be remembered a short time longer than others, as if it mattered to the other walking dead.