#oblivion

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#big hit #career #happy #hit #i

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! ↗

— George A. Smith

#does #find #himself #his #man

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

— John Green

#oblivion #humor

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. ↗

— Robert Macfarlane

#arrogance #humility #inspirational #mountaineering #mountains

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

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

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

— Jerome Corsi

#conservative #continues #headed #ignore #oblivion

...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs, flooding across the rough wooden floor, down the narrow wooden stairs and out into the old soil of the garden. No roses, no, she does not even ask to make roses, just dissolution; most any night she asks just for that. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#emptiness #grief #grieving #loss #lost-love

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

#music #oblivion #music