Oblivion Quotes

I`m not going to throw up or over-exercise myself into oblivion to look like a model. People tell me, `You`d work all the time if you just lost twenty pounds.` What am I going to do, cut off my head?!

Vote freedom first. Vote George W. Bush. Everything else is a distant and forgettable second place. This is the most important election since the Civil War. Al Gore, if elected, would have the power to hammer your gun rights right into oblivion. Instead of fighting redcoats, we are now fighting blue blood elitists. (2000)

I`m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I`m two steps away from the other side when I`m out there. It`s more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.

I`m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

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

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

I was so broke. I was just trying to keep it going, keep the band going and writing all the time. ... I had written myself into oblivion, ... I had gotten to a point that I was very proud of and that I thought had depth, but no one wanted to hear that.

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

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

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.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It`s just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it`s the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

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

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

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

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.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.