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Letter "O" » oblivion
«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.»
Author: Alfred A. Montapert
(Author)
| About:
History,
Majority,
Obstacles,
Success
| Keywords:
objectives, oblivion, records, successes
«There is only one way in the world to be distinguished: Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind; and you will have the oblivion you desire.»
«Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
forgetfulness, oblivion, pain, pain and pleasure, pleasure, remembrance, remembrances, sort, sorted, sorting, sort of, sort out
«Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.»
«The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| Keywords:
biographies, oblivion, spasm, spasms, transit
«The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
ink, inscribe, oblivion, once-over, scholarship, telephone, telephone wire, wire
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarmed, alarming, ambitious, at rest, authors, betters, clock, dormitory, dreariest, dreary, dumped, dumping, dumps, envy, eternal rest, fame, Higher Ground, High Hopes, meeting place, oblivion, Pride and, storage, struggling, The Alarm, The State, wicked
«The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.»
«Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.»
«That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
childishness, eventful, eye tooth, oblivion, SANS
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