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Oblivion Quotes
Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.
William Rose Benet
Blue
,
Me
,
Lit
,
Smiled
,
Largely
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.
H. P. Lovecraft
Me
,
Care
,
Better
,
Wish
,
Enough
,
Born
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Antoine Rivarol
Humanity
,
Fame
,
Rule
,
Exception
Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
George Lois
Art
,
Challenge
,
Mind
,
People
,
Problem
I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.
Dilip Kumar
Personality
,
Politics
,
Men
,
People
,
Look
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Horace Greeley
Wings
,
Fame
,
Accident
,
Only
,
Popularity
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Philip Wylie
Ignorance
,
Bliss
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
Fear
,
Darkness
,
Sleep
,
Matter
,
Soft
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
Billy Corgan
People
,
Posing
,
Rock And Roll
,
Rock
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
David Ebershoff
History
,
Live
,
Born
,
Disappear
,
Us
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
Alfred A. Montapert
History
,
Obstacles
,
Reward
,
See
,
Records
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley
Living
,
Apathy
,
Sort
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon
Politics
,
You
,
Silver
,
Finishing
,
Second
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Al Goldstein
Future
,
Death
,
Moment
,
Illusion
,
Fame
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Ephraim Mirvis
Silence
,
Circumstances
,
Some
,
Noble
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
Ben Carson
Future
,
Nation
,
Planning
,
Destroy
,
Going
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Auguste Renoir
Nature
,
Confidence
,
Pain
,
Artist
,
Listen
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage
Life
,
Death
,
School
,
High School
,
Better
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.
Chuck Schumer
Life
,
Love
,
Path
,
Step
,
River
,
Road
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Claude Debussy
Music
,
People
,
Deception
,
Come
,
Seek
There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
Harry Dean Stanton
Answer
,
State
,
Void
,
Says
,
Buddhism
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 Pearsall Smith
Life
,
Mind
,
My Life
,
Down
,
Information
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.
Richard Dawkins
Time
,
Vote
,
Political
,
American
,
Israel
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
Life
,
Nature
,
War
,
Time
,
Book
,
Hands
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith
Nature
,
Man
,
Peace
,
Past
,
Find
,
Purity
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.
Carolyn Murphy
Child
,
Easy
,
Run
,
Want
,
Birth
,
Obvious
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