Oblivion Quotes

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy

“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“[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

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?”
― Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

“If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“When the ashes of the wildfire of love have been scattered in the hazy den of oblivion and emotions have gone out of commission, life gets unremittingly tangled up, if no inner voices emerge to enlighten the looming shadows of hesitant expectations, if no shimmer sparks the magic appeal of ‘Being in the world’. ("Fish for silence." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears.

But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion.”
― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

“-so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Do they not deserve our attention, those armies of small-minded and low-graded people, drifting on the waves of their unawareness or misfortune, suffocating in their caves of bewilderment and fading into oblivion? Imminent counteractions might unchain an avalanche of social fallouts if they feel ignored or disregarded. Sheeple’s rage is unpredictable and rampant. We must never fail to remember the lessons of history. (“Bread and Satellite”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.”
― Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

“but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.”
― Marty Rubin

“And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
Only as many pages, only as much ink
To accept all of us at light-speed
Hurrying into the Promised Land
Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“There is no better guide to this world than oblivion.”
― Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

“Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For
him, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is the place where
something can come out of nothing.”
― Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger

“Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow
So death is life's forgetfulness”
― Mihai Eminescu

“المنبوذون لا ينسون ابدًا”
― Jodee Blanco, Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story

“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
― Kathryn Schulz

“I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. "There will come a time," I said, "when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed for that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. ”
― John Green

“El margen sabe lo que el centro olvida, seguramente porque la memoria es el poder del vencido. El triunfador sabe que, como decía Nietzsche, "para ser feliz hay que olvidar", pero ese olvido, aunque le haga feliz, no le hace verdadero.”
― Reyes Mate, La herencia del olvido

“I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I could feel the certainty of a reality leeching out of me like calcium from a bone. I was starving my mind into obliqueness. I felt less and less. Words came and I spoke them in my head, then nestled in on the sound of them, got lost in the music.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Soon, I'd be home again. Soon, God willing, I'd be asleep.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“You take me off my path
As the wind exhausts the clouds
You tell me not to try
To hold your face
But even if you're only
A reflection on a wall

-You make me live.
And I know that your lips

Will triumph from oblivion
In the book of the world.”
― Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne

“What we all dread most,” said the priest in a low voice, “is a maze with no centre. That is why atheism is only a nightmare.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown

“In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing