Quotes by Oblivion 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. Marcus Aurelius oblivion fame long Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening. Mason Cooley oblivion threatening waiting Death promises nothing--not even oblivion. Mason Cooley oblivion death promise It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. Max Beerbohm oblivion pace leader What's the Matter with the Mill? Memphis Minnie rich-poor oblivion matter The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices. Michel de Certeau oblivion cities practice Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion. Nicole Kidman oblivion love-you people Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! Ouida oblivion atheist death Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. Pablo Neruda oblivion infinite jars Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens. Pablo Neruda oblivion stones death And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion? Pablo Neruda courtroom oblivion importance Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. Oscar Wilde oblivion portraits pain 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. Patrick Süskind oblivion felt For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. Philip Levine oblivion sea ordinary God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. Pliny the Elder oblivion over-it past The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion. R. Buckminster Fuller oblivion utopia choices A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. Richard Le Gallienne neighbour oblivion Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. Robert Macfarlane oblivion mountain half You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave. Robert Palmer oblivion saved philosophy There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between. Roger Ebert oblivion return guarantees «1234»