Quotes About Oblivion

A person remembers different people when in need. But when the person doesn't need anything anymore, the person forgets almost everything even the people's names.

Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

To die guessing that you will be forgotten is one thing. But what would it be like to know that you have been forgotten before you die?

ample opportunity to realize that those who have made compromises under an occupation in order to survive are reluctant to meet anyone tactless enough to return from oblivion.

Mänsklighetens minne är bristfälligt och orättvist, och våra äldsta och största välgörare ha vi glömt.

People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.

Sleep beckoned, warn and wide and full of welcome oblivion. It was no use. I couldn't crawl back into unconsciousness. I had too much to do.

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

I savour this total oblivion into which I have fallen. I am between two towns. One knows nothing of me, the other knows me no longer.

existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing—not even a memory.

It had already crossed her mind that the swimming pool might invite oblivion.

What did you forget I existed?

To ensure that we don't merely exist in the dead present? ... That the oblivion of the now as opposed to the ecstasy of looking back--but wait, wait, if the present is the past, you fool, dissolving this very moment--then it is incumbent upon us now, now, to create the past--so obvious! so rudimentary!--it's the uncreated past that is dead [Walt Kaplan/August, Bedroom]

To negate the pain, men and gods forget, pretend to forget, then forget to pretend.

the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.

Most of it has probably gone into erad by now, but they may have a few terminal typescript manuscripts.

I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.

I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel," she continued. "Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse—to be tortured forever—I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?

nothing. "I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel," she continued. "Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse—to be tortured forever—I thought that must be worse Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?

If there are other rules, I have forgotten them, and if I've forgotten them it is because they don't matter.

I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel, she continued. Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse – to be tortured for ever – I thought that must be worse... But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out for ever and ever?

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

There are worse fates than being forgotten.

A high degree of intelligence yes in no other creature in the natural world. That's why nature shuns us and why we subconsciously hate her and seek to obliterate her. High intelligence leads to the concept of progress. Progress leads to nuclear weapons, bio-engineering chaos and ultimately to annihilation.