(76 quotes found)
“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.”
Oscar Wilde
“That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything”
William Shakespeare
“Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: perseverance, dear my lord, Ke”
“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”
George Eliot
“Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.”
D.H. Lawrence
“And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.”
David Herbert Lawrence
“Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.”
William Rose Benet
“Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion”
Will Rogers
“The real wise man will listen to the symphony of silence and drink the water of forgetfulness to understand the sense of his emptiness.”
Sorin Cerin
“People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?”
Claude Debussy
