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.
Umberto Eco

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

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.
Logan P. Smith

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

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.
William R. Benet

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

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.
Charles Schumer

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon

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

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.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

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.
Jeffrey Wright

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

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

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Philip Wylie

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

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.
Raymond Chandler

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.
David Knopfler

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.
Philip Levine