Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
You can't keep letting people live their happy little lives in oblivion. To move forward they have to be uncomfortable.
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.
Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.
Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.
I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.
I made up my mind I was going to walk that thin line between fame and oblivion.
Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious.
I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
After winning a medal, many athletes give up and go into oblivion, the reason being lack of encouragement.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
I've gotten into surfing a bit. I can't stand up for more than five seconds, but I like the fact that I can paddle out into oblivion.
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.
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.
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
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.
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.
The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow
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