Oblivion Quotes

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. View quote
George Steiner
I am the family face Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. View quote
William Wordsworth
Fame is a vapor popularity an accident the only earthly certainty is oblivion. View quote
Mark Twain
I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
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. View quote
Chuck Schumer
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. View quote
Al Goldstein
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. View quote
Philip Levine
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe. (Buckminster Fuller)
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China. View quote
Chiang Kai-shek
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was. View quote
Philip Pullman
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. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. View quote
Clive Barker
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel, when by the hand of God, every man was stricken for his rebellion, with an oblivion of his former language. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. (George Sand)
My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it. View quote
Marco Denevi
Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign. View quote
Sergei Biriuzov
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez