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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.
I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.
For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
You can't keep letting people live their happy little lives in oblivion. To move forward they have to be uncomfortable.
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
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.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us 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've gotten into surfing a bit. I can't stand up for more than five seconds, but I like the fact that I can paddle out into oblivion.
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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.
Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
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 majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
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.
I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.
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.
We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!