Top 35 Oblivion Quotes

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.

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

We shot ‘Oblivion’ in Iceland; that was amazing. It’s so, so beautiful. They didn’t have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n’ roll.

After winning a medal, many athletes give up and go into oblivion, the reason being lack of encouragement.

I think about fanaticism – oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

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

I made up my mind I was going to walk that thin line between fame and oblivion.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

For me, I feel like, between ‘Tron’ and ‘Oblivion,’ I’ve gotten to fulfill my ‘Star Wars’ fantasies, in a way.

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

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

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

I’m very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school.

You can’t keep letting people live their happy little lives in oblivion. To move forward they have to be uncomfortable.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into 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.

I couldn’t live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they’re what I grew up with.

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

The trouble is not that schools don’t work; they do. They’re excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain – and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there’s always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

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

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.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

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

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.

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.

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.

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