Top 380 Oblivion Quotes & Sayings

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

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

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

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

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

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

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

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

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

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

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

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.

Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

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

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

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

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Oblivion is not to be hired.

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

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.