Quotes About Oblivion

In books, I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come … All things decay and pass with time … all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

The moment she entered the room where the man sat alone, waiting intensely, the thrill passed through her, she died in terror, and after the death, a great flame gushed up, obliterating her.

Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably.

looking for that sweet oblivion that all young men, white and black, thought could save them from the greater darkness that dogged their heels.

I hide myself in the quiet white of winter and nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion

Forgetfulness generates the meaning of regeneration.

Alles zal vergeten worden en ten slotte verdwijnen en dan nooit gebeurd zijn. En het is deze gedachte, die hem plotseling de verdorven kracht geef om te doen wat hem te doen staat.

When you thought of permanent oblivion, temporary oblivion was the only foxhole you had.

Nobody hears a single word you say, but you keep on talkin' till your dying day.

There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

Considerably more Polish Jews resident in France were killed than French Jews resident in France. Statelessness followed these thirty thousands murdered Polish Jews to Paris, to Drancy, to Auschwitz, to the gas chambers, to the crematoria, and to oblivion.

Nothing is so sure as the final oblivion.

We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.

A man who forgets what day he was married, when he's been married one year, will forget, at about the end of the fourth, that he's married at all.

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

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

despite the mute coldness of the teeth and the hatred of the eyes, and the battle of dying beasts that watch over oblivion, in some summer place we are together watching with lips invaded by thirst. —Pablo Neruda, from "II: FURIES AND SORROWS," The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005)

I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I might be dying. And it was being alone' ... 'To me,' she said, 'the scariest thing is oblivion. Being, and then not being.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.

There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been reduced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion.