Quotes About Oblivion

And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion

In blissful oblivion the soldier lay dreaming Of cookies and doughnuts and mother-made bread.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed. (from Who's Who in Hell)

He hated the oblivion of sleep. There was too much to do, too much of life to live. He grudged every moment of life sleep robbed him of, and before the clock had ceased its clattering he was head and ears in the washbasin and thrilling to the cold bite of the water.

forgetfulness

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion. ?

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

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.

Each and every generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

No one cares to contact this random ass dude!

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

A story about the burdens of remembering and the costs of forgetting,

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

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the only reason anyone knows anything about him at all.

If we can't be entertained, there're only two places to go. Back to the cave, or on to oblivion.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

This is when I'd cry because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion.

Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.