Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Al Goldstein
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.
Alfred A. Montapert
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
Anna Seward
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Antoine Rivarol
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Auguste Renoir
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
Ben Carson
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
Billy Corgan
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.
Carolyn Murphy
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
Chuck Schumer
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Claude Debussy
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive Barker
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
Cynthia Ozick
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Daniel Libeskind
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
David Ebershoff
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.
David Knopfler
I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.
Dilip Kumar
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Ephraim Mirvis
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith
Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.
It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.
Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
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.
There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Apathy is a sort of living 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.
But I know that trying to black out my past with oblivion will just damage my future. I made the decision to stop running from my fears, and to walk slowly and deliberately towards self-nurture, self-respect, and better mental and physical health.
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.
If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.
I've developed a fun text when a friend has just had a baby. I ask a classic question: 'Are you sleeping?' The reply is inevitably that they aren't, they're getting a few hours here and there, they're exhausted. It's then when I swoop in: 'It'll all be worth it when they're softly stroking your hair as you slip into oblivion.'
The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.
For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.
There are so many ideas in my mind of old craftsmanship and food we have been enjoying for thousands of years. Some are on the verge of oblivion. I hope to preserve them through my small efforts.
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.
Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.
You can't keep letting people live their happy little lives in oblivion. To move forward they have to be uncomfortable.
There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.
Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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!
I made up my mind I was going to walk that thin line between fame and oblivion.
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.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
