Quotes of Oblivion - somelinesforyou

“ It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. ”

- Bible

“ Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion. ”

- Zhang Jie

“ Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ What do a few lives on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion. ”

- Zhang Jie

“ We may with advantage forget what we know. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away; Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey. ”

- Edmund Spenser

“ God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ”

- Friedrich Klopstock

“ Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. ”

- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“ All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ”

- Elias Canetti

“ Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. ”

- Christina Stead

“ I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. ”

- Bible

“ And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. ”

- Bayazid Al Bistami

“ Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

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

- James Thurber

“ Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. ”

- Talmud
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