Quotes About Oblivion

It's almost a mission for some people - to forget.

Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion.

He had blown the trumpet for so long that no one heard it anymore.

is like a leaden blanket of darkness—darkness and fear, because you are possessed by dread: a universal dread that clamps like a limpet onto every passing thought. In the depths of an attack, I wake each morning feeling as if I have committed a capital crime and been sentenced to hang. The overwhelming temptation is to seek oblivion, and at the worst, the thought of the ultimate oblivion is always with you.

the feeling that I was becoming no one at all

For some people, status is what protects them from oblivion. And when they feel their status is slipping away from them, they act fearfully, irrationally.

Now you go into oblivion.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

One who easily forgets can be easily forgotten.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

La fama sigue cursos extraños: la de unos aumenta al morir y la de otros se desvanece. —El itacense abre las manazas—. Es imposible decir quién va a sobrevivir al holocausto de la memoria.

The Oblivion Seekers

We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall. As Thomas Hardy writes of Tess Durbeyfield, 'There was another date . . . that of her own death; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it?

She insisted, but he would not receive her. He was not even acting out of necessity: she meant nothing to him anymore. Death had rapidly broken the bonds whose enslavement he had been dreading for several weeks. When he tried to think of Oliviane, nothing presented itself to his mind's eye: the eyes of his imagination and of his vanity had closed.

I don't want to be forgotten, Henry. That is greater horror to an old man than death--to be forgotten.

The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

I've always said that no matter how bad a book; if it is successful then it is fulfilling some function, it has some strong points, there must be something good about it, or it would have been consigned to oblivion.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

The only guarantee in life is death, but the only thing worse than death itself, is being forgotten.