Quotes About Oblivion

For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn retreat from waking reality, I do not know, but I woke only reluctantly to take a little food, falling at once back into a stupor of oblivion, as though the small, warm weight of broth in my stomach were an anchor that pulled me after it, down through the murky fathoms of sleep.

Some parts of history, however, do not merely recede into history, but into oblivion, into historical knowledge vacuums and sometimes into black holes.

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

With the Internet, you can be easily exposed and disposed. You can create some viral video, the biggest thing ever, and then four weeks later, no one remembers your name.

Just because you remember somebody real good doesn't mean they remember you back.

Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

And Peter, with his 20/20 vision, cast his eyes downward, so that he wouldn't see.

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! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.

No mark survives this place: you too will yieldto unmemory.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

Nothingness is staring you in the face. Utter and permanent oblivion. You will cease to be. To be, Jack. The dier accepts this and dies. The killer, in theory, attempts to defeat his own death by killing others. He buys time, he buys life. - Murray (WN 291)

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identical structures.

One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember.

The insignia would be meaningless to all but a few people, most of whom were dead. See you soon, boys.

Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.

Lark of memory it is your blood that is flowing and not mine Lark of memory I have tightened my fist Lark of memory dead bird of mist you should not have come to eat from my hand the grains of oblivion.

All roads come to an end, and all ends are the same, trailing off into nothing; even an echo eventually will be silenced" (Kincaid 215).

I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners of the earth in the hope that humankind would forget both his writings and his name. I'd like to be able to make that demand; commemorative ceremonies are not only false but dangerous, as are all statues of famous men. Long live forgetfulness, I've always said—the only dignity I see is in oblivion.