#oblivion

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? ↗

— Claude Debussy

#come #deception #form #music #oblivion

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

#oblivion #death

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm. ↗

— Anna Seward

#cold #dissolve #each #fading #fair

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe. ↗

— William Faulkner

#making-your-mark #mementos #memories #notice #oblivion

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

#been #comedian #comedy #compelled #compete

Where I will find peace other than in oblivion? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life-lessons #oblivion #life

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion. ↗

— Jerome Corsi

#conservative #continues #headed #ignore #oblivion

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? ↗

— James Thurber

#fear #matter #oblivion #opposition #sleep

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#living #oblivion #sort