Vergessenheit / Oblivion Zitate auf Englisch

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

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

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.

Fred Allen

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

George A. Smith

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Clive Barker

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

Richard M. Nixon

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.

Raymond Chandler

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

Auguste Renoir

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

David Knopfler

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Philip Wylie

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.

Chuck Schumer

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.

Philip Levine

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.

Jeffrey Wright

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

Claude Debussy

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

Antoine Rivarol

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

Jerome Corsi

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

Philip Levine

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

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

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.

Hamish Bowles

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

William Rose Benet

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

Dan Savage

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

Al Goldstein

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.

Jonathan Kozol

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.

Alfred A. Montapert

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

George Steiner

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

James Thurber

I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.

Yair Lapid

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Umberto Eco

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.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Richard Le Gallienne

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.

Greg Gutfeld

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

Susannah McCorkle

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Horace Greeley

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Anna Seward

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

Sam Harris

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.

Billy Corgan