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Oblivion Quotes - Page 3

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

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

Oblivion is not to be hired.

Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.44

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.

Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.44

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.92, Ouida

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

Hannah More (1853). “The Works of Hannah More: Practical piety”, p.268

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

"Memory and Oblivion". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,