Oblivion Quotes

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Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

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.

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

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.

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

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.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

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.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.

By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

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.

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

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

What's the Matter with the Mill?

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

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.

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.