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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. -- Antoine Rivarol
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? -- James Thurber
Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening. -- Mason Cooley
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has. -- Sean MacBride
Oblivion cures the old wounds. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Oblivion is not to be hired. -- Thomas Browne
Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option. -- Ian Mcewan
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. -- Horace Greeley
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. -- Philip Wylie
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. -- George Sand
Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files. -- Lee Sandlin
Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm. -- Anna Seward
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way. -- Joseph Kosinski
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
Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness. -- Thomas Carlyle
Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man. -- Thomas Browne
Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped -- Kami Garcia
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 -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Oblivion is something unique, an entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before. I decided this was a project I really wanted to work on creatively, and I hope fans of the game enjoy the results. -- Sean Bean
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. -- Terry Pratchett
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection. -- Margaret Atwood
Kisses honeyed by oblivion. -- George Eliot
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up. -- William Shakespeare
Among our crimes oblivion may be set. -- John Dryden
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. -- Rajneesh
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark. -- John Green
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. -- D. H. Lawrence
I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. -- Chuck Palahniuk
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. -- Ambrose Bierce
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. -- Khalil
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 Armand Montapert
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock. -- Ambrose Bierce
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. -- John Green
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
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view. -- Yann Martel
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past. -- Thomas Carlyle
Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me. -- William Rose Benet
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school. -- Dan Savage
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. -- Richard M. Nixon
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? -- Claude Debussy
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! -- George A. Smith
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. -- Daniel Libeskind
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools. -- Jonathan Kozol
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. -- Sam Harris
Death promises nothing--not even oblivion. -- Mason Cooley
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion -- Horace Greeley
Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion. -- D. H. Lawrence
You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave. -- Robert Palmer
When love dies, the love song fades into oblivion -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens. -- Pablo Neruda
The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion... -- Søren Kierkegaard
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence. -- Hannah More
We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion. -- Bruce Babbitt
The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion. -- Samuel Parris
There was existence in oblivion; there is you in oblivion. -- Pushpa Rana
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion. -- Augusto Pinochet
And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion? -- Pablo Neruda
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. -- Audrey Niffenegger
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion. -- Hosea Ballou
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion. -- Fiona Apple
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve. -- Edward Abbey
Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible. -- Arthur M. Jolly
If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion. -- Wade MacNeil
Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion. -- Will Rogers
As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that. -- Anne Rice
... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion. -- W. G. Sebald
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. -- Marcus Aurelius
A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all. -- Marty Rubin
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. -- Pliny the Elder
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it -- Taylor Caldwell
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. -- Mark Twain
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. -- Erma Bombeck
The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud. -- J. G. Ballard
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. -- George Steiner
What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion. -- William Shakespeare
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion. -- Anne Reeve Aldrich
Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion. -- Jan Struther
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. -- Doris Lessing
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion. -- D. H. Lawrence
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. -- Paul Theroux
And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. -- George Meredith
If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion. -- Jerome Corsi
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief. -- John Milton
Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion. -- Nicole Kidman
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion. -- Mason Cooley
Ignorance is not bliss â?? it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. -- Philip Wylie
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. -- Robert Macfarlane
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. -- Pablo Neruda
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. -- Jose Saramago
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. -- Philip Levine
I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion. -- Susannah McCorkle
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose. -- Alexander Borodin
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. -- Jorge Luis Borges
She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion. -- Jess C. Scott
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. -- Max Beerbohm
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. -- Milan Kundera
All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever. -- David Jeremiah
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion. -- Sophie Jordan

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