Oblivion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.
-- Andy Irons -
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich -
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.
-- Arthur M. Jolly -
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.
-- Bill Gross -
We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
-- Bruce Babbitt -
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
-- Claude Debussy -
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
-- Claude Debussy -
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
-- Erma Bombeck -
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
-- Fiona Apple -
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
-- Frederick Buechner -
And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.
-- George Meredith -
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
-- George Steiner -
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
-- Hannah Arendt -
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
-- Haruki Murakami -
Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.
-- Jan Struther -
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.
-- Kate Cann -
Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
-- Margaret Cavendish -
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
-- Max Beerbohm -
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.
-- Michel de Certeau -
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
-- Milan Kundera -
Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
-- Nicole Kidman -
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!
-- Ouida -
Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
-- Pablo Neruda -
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
-- Pablo Neruda -
He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.
-- Patrick Süskind -
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
-- Richard Le Gallienne -
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
-- Robert Macfarlane -
You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave.
-- Robert Palmer -
I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.
-- Susannah McCorkle -
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it
-- Taylor Caldwell -
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.
-- Viswanathan Anand -
The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.
-- Samuel Parris -
If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.
-- Wade MacNeil -
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
-- Alexander Borodin -
Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions.
-- Ernest Nagel -
On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?
-- Thomas French -
To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".
-- Yasumasa Morimura -
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.
-- Kate Cann
