Quotes about Oblivion

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.

The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

To recall a voter's name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.