Quotes About Oblivion

He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.

An altogether extraordinary fact is the rapidity with which Medieval civilization was completely forgotten; already in the seventeenth century, men had lost all idea of what it had been, and its surviving monuments no longer had any meaning for them, either intellectually or even esthetically;

Describe what is meant by "forgetting.

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.

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 in time... All fame would fall into oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them

The turtledove, swallow and crane keep the time of their coming, says Jeremiah. only people fail to recall the order of the Lord.

Hearthstone Passes Out Even More than Jason Grace (Though I Have No Idea Who That Is)

Goodbye, Apollo,' said the Sibyl's voice, clearer now. 'I forgive you. Not because you deserve it. Not for your sake at all. But because I will not go into oblivion carrying hate when I can carry love.

While obsession with one's personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.

O! my oblivion is a very Antony,And I am all forgotten.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Death is the end of those who have done nothing to cause their names to live after them.

People—and I'm no exception—seem capable of forgetting almost anything, much as if our island were unable to float in anything but an expanse of totally empty sea.

Saying no to the inevitable is one of the few precious ways our own species redeems itself from oblivion- or at least tries to.

Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape.

A quell'epoca, io stavo cercando l'oblio, e cercavo in quei volti assenti, anonimi, anche nei più penosamente familiari, una specie di innocua fuga. Una morte che non significasse essere morti.