Oblivion Quotes

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

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle. [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

What's the Matter with the Mill?

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

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

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

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

Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.