119 Quotes About Oblivion
- Author Li Kunwu
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Étrangement, de sa brigade de combat, "l'Éclair", il ne gardait qu'un vague souvenir, comme d'ailleurs de la plupart de ce que nous avons vécu durant cette époque hors norme de la révolution culturelle.
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- Author Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne
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You take me off my pathAs the wind exhausts the cloudsYou tell me not to tryTo hold your faceBut even if you're onlyA reflection on a wall-You make me live.And I know that your lipsWill triumph from oblivionIn the book of the world.
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- Author David Foster Wallace
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The fact is that we're all lonely, of course. Everyone knows this, it's almost a cliché. So yet another layer of my essential fraudulence is that I pretended to myself that my loneliness was special, that is was uniquely my fault because I was somehow especially fraudulent and hollow.
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- Author Azza Bondok
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وكيف تنساني يا كل ناسي
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- Author Kelly Creagh
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You loved her," Isobel said."Worshipped," Scrimshaw corrected. "But more ludicrous than that, let us not forget, she loved me." He gave a short ironic laugh. "Not just him-the poet. But me as well. I, the epitome of our own penchant for self-destruction. Do you know how difficult...how impossible such a feat must have been?
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- Author Kelly Creagh
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Isobel had entrusted the note to Gwen just before Baltimore. And the small scrap of paper still remained her only tangible evidence that Varen had loved her.Expect...he didn't anymore.
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- Author Kelly Creagh
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Hush a-bye my little birdHush a-bye my childI have lost a love so greatOh, woe is me.
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- Author Luis Buñuel
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I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners of the earth in the hope that humankind would forget both his writings and his name. I'd like to be able to make that demand; commemorative ceremonies are not only false but dangerous, as are all statues of famous men. Long live forgetfulness, I've always said—the only dignity I see is in oblivion.
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- Author Hazel Hall
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I am less of myself and more of the sun;The beat of life is wearing meTo an incomplete oblivion,
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