#oblivion

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ↗

— George Steiner

#biographies #domestic #gray #human #immense

And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ↗

— John Green

#oblivion #humor

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me. ↗

— William Rose Benet

#largely #lit #me #oblivion #smiled

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

— Claude Debussy

#come #deception #form #music #oblivion

Yo ya no sé que escribir... Es mi forma de saber que ya te olvidé ↗

— J. Porcupine

#escribir #love #oblivion #olvido #writing

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

#death #degradation #dying #oblivion #courage

[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

#horror #illusion #oblivion #reality #truth

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

— Anna Seward

#cold #dissolve #each #fading #fair

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