43 Quotations with Oblivion.
- 1. The Talmud: Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
- 2. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
- 3. Sterne: How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling an ...
- 6. Mark Twain: Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
- 7. William James: The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomles ...
- 8. Yann Martel: The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity-it's envy. ...
- 9. D. H. Lawrence: Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion
- 10. Anna Comnena: Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all creat ...
- 11. Logan Pearsall Smith: All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of ...
- 12. D. H. Lawrence: And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, a ...
- 13. D. H. Lawrence: Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will no ...
- 14. Sir Thomas Browne: But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the me ...
- 15. James Thurber: But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with ...
- 16. Henry Miller: Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob ...
- 17. Richard M. Nixon: Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics g ...
- 18. Jeanne Moreau: For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the ...
- 19. Thomas Hardy: I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace thro ...
- 20. Joseph Brodsky: If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the m ...
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