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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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