Oblivion Quotes

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

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.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

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

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

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

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.