#oblivion

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#neighbours #oblivion #wholesome #wisdom

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

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#former #history #latter #majority #objectives

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#barefoot #birth #child #easy #gave

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

— George A. Smith

#does #find #himself #his #man

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

— George Steiner

#biographies #domestic #gray #human #immense

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#could #did #i #inflate #known

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. ↗

— Philip Wylie

#ignorance #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