Quotes about Oblivion

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

Oblivion is increasingly attractive to the young, and even to the middle-aged, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking can even begin to solve the problem?

I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

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

Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.

That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others.

Forgotten is forgiven.

They had forgotten — as people inevitably forget

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

Be deaf! You do not need to hear or, hearing, you do not need to remember. How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous