oblivion

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
c9f584c	Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.	lover sleep opiate oblivion	Audrey Niffenegger
e4845a2	No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.	time-passing oblivion	Haruki Murakami
7295537	Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.	inspirational mountaineering adventure arrogance mountains humility oblivion	Robert Macfarlane
77ae687	"Tell me again what you said at the revel," he says, climbing over me, his body against mine. "What?" I can barely think. "That you hate me," he says, his voice hoarse. "Tell me that you hate me." "I hate you," I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you." He kisses me harder. "I hate you," I breathe into his mouth. "I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else."	hate enchantment kisses revel oblivion	Holly Black
1c23e53	so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.	support-group hazel-grace-lancaster tfios oblivion	John Green
a6cf9c0	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.	death degradation oblivion dying	Philip K. Dick
e20b04c	But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.	oblivion	Irvine Welsh
c3edbf5	And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.	oblivion	John Green
99e1f0f	She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.	memories past melancholy oblivion remembering memory	Lois Lowry
5868731	What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.	memories making-your-mark mementos notice oblivion	William Faulkner
1b6f681	He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.	existence mortality non-existence non-fiction essay impermanence oblivion	Milan Kundera
3e32f51	And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person.	sleep depression the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch unhappy oblivion	Iris Murdoch
42617fd	On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unable to sell his work, grew cold and hungry as he went from one unsuccessful interview to the next; eventually he had become a vagrant, sleeping in the streets of the city where once he had walked in hope. Hawksmoor left the cinema in a mood of profound, terrified apprehension and, from that time, he was filled with a sense of time passing and with the fear that he might be left discarded on its banks. The fear had not left him, although now he could no longer remember from where it came: he looked back on his earlier life without curiosity, since it seemed to lack intrinsic interest, and when he looked forward he saw the same steady attainment of goals without any joy in their attainment. For him, the state of happiness was simply the state of not suffering and, if he cared for anything, it was for oblivion.	time life anxiety goals oblivion	Peter Ackroyd
f3ca3b2	In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.	oblivion	Cormac McCarthy
c7c84a8	And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep. But there is no echo of it in my mind.	oblivion remember	Beth Revis
c38a4c5	"I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel," she continued. "Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse--to be tortured forever--I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?"	fear oblivion	Philip Pullman
d32788e	Now you go into oblivion.	john-howard-griffin oblivion	John Howard Griffin

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

Audrey Niffenegger

e4845a2

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.

time-passing oblivion

Haruki Murakami

7295537

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

inspirational mountaineering adventure arrogance mountains humility oblivion

Robert Macfarlane

77ae687

"Tell me again what you said at the revel," he says, climbing over me, his body against mine. "What?" I can barely think. "That you hate me," he says, his voice hoarse. "Tell me that you hate me." "I hate you," I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you." He kisses me harder. "I hate you," I breathe into his mouth. "I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else."

hate enchantment kisses revel oblivion

Holly Black

1c23e53

so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.

support-group hazel-grace-lancaster tfios oblivion

John Green

a6cf9c0

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.

death degradation oblivion dying

Philip K. Dick

e20b04c

But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.

oblivion

Irvine Welsh

c3edbf5

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

oblivion

John Green

99e1f0f

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

memories past melancholy oblivion remembering memory

Lois Lowry

5868731

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.

memories making-your-mark mementos notice oblivion

William Faulkner

1b6f681

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.

existence mortality non-existence non-fiction essay impermanence oblivion

Milan Kundera

3e32f51

And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person.

sleep depression the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch unhappy oblivion

Iris Murdoch

42617fd

On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unable to sell his work, grew cold and hungry as he went from one unsuccessful interview to the next; eventually he had become a vagrant, sleeping in the streets of the city where once he had walked in hope. Hawksmoor left the cinema in a mood of profound, terrified apprehension and, from that time, he was filled with a sense of time passing and with the fear that he might be left discarded on its banks. The fear had not left him, although now he could no longer remember from where it came: he looked back on his earlier life without curiosity, since it seemed to lack intrinsic interest, and when he looked forward he saw the same steady attainment of goals without any joy in their attainment. For him, the state of happiness was simply the state of not suffering and, if he cared for anything, it was for oblivion.

time life anxiety goals oblivion

Peter Ackroyd

f3ca3b2

In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.

oblivion

Cormac McCarthy

c7c84a8

And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep. But there is no echo of it in my mind.

oblivion remember

Beth Revis

c38a4c5

"I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel," she continued. "Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse--to be tortured forever--I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?"

fear oblivion

Philip Pullman

d32788e

Now you go into oblivion.

john-howard-griffin oblivion

John Howard Griffin