Oblivion Quotes - Page 8

• The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.

  Greg Weisman

  Memories, Book, Teaching

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• 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.

  Bliss Carman

  Being Yourself, Eye, Desire

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.

  Ben Stein

  Home, Nursing, Golf

  Ben Stein (1998). “Tommy & Me: The Making of a Dad”, Simon & Schuster

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, War

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Jerome Corsi

  Party, Conservative, Republican

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• So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Airports, Light

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

  Clive Barker

  Life, Believe, Scary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Simple, Keys, Games

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying Sun, into which her two inner companions of the solar system have already plunged to a fiery death. The Twilight of the Gods is history; and our planet drifts on and on into that oblivion from which nothing escapes, to which time itself may be dedicated in the final cosmic reckoning.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Twilight, Two, Dying

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• Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Flight, Life Is, Loses

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.75, New Directions Publishing

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• There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

  Winston Churchill

  Revenge, Blessed, Past

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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• While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

  Kate Cann

  Mental Illness, Obsession, Appearance

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• Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Blessed, Eight

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Our World, Life And Death, Borders

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Civilization, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Wall, Moving

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

  Harry Chapin

  Success, Children, Believe

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• And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

  Pablo Neruda

  Importance, Courtroom

  Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.60, Copper Canyon Press

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Memorable, Futility Of Life, Terrorism

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• There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Hands, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.127

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• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Land, Battle

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (17), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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

  Lewis Black

  Country, Unique, Protection

  Lewis Black, Hank Gallo (2005). “Nothing's Sacred”

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• The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.

  Robert Fulton

  Ignorance, Science, Men

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• I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Attitude, Artist, Expression

  Source: u-in-u.com

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

  Ivan Bunin

  Writing, Darkness, Deeds

  Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Gleb Struve, Heidi Hillis (1994). “The Life of Arseniev: Youth”, p.6, Northwestern University Press

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