H. P. Lovecraft

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

American Novelist

Jack Monroe

But I know that trying to black out my past with oblivion will just damage my future. I made the decision to stop running from my fears, and to walk slowly and deliberately towards self-nurture, self-respect, and better mental and physical health.

British Journalist

Ben Carson

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

American Scientist

P. T. Usha

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

Indian Athlete

Richard M. Nixon

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

American President

Dan Savage

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

American Writer

Antoine Rivarol

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

French Journalist

William Rose Benet

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

American Poet

Philip Wylie

Horace Greeley

American Editor

Used when someone is totally absorbed and doesn't notice surroundings.

Unaware State

"Oblivion" doesn't always mean something bad; can be neutral.

Not Negative

Sometimes used to describe a mindful or restful state.

Mental Escape

Often seen in contexts discussing people or works falling out of public memory.

Historical Use

Commonly used in arts and media to express the fading of fame or relevance.

Cultural Relevance

Refers to the loss of recognition for a person's or society's past accomplishments.

Past Achievements

Implies absolute erasure, leaving no trace behind.

Total Destruction

Used for dramatic effect to highlight the end of something's existence.

Emphatic Endings

Often found in contexts of violence or disasters to underscore totality of destruction.

Violent Context

 As you get older, the risers get shallower and the steps get wider, and you start moving along at a slower pace because you're making fewer discoveries. And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.

Paula Scher: Great...

 I simply wasn't there. It was total oblivion. Anesthesia -- it's a modern kind of magic. It turns people into objects, and then, we hope, back again into people. And in this process is one of the greatest remaining mysteries in science and philosophy. How does consciousness happen?

Your brain hallucinates...

 and he said, "The continent is sleepwalking into oblivion." Well, maybe that's true, maybe that's an exaggeration. But there's another problem which goes along with this -- that Europe is increasingly out of touch with the world -- and that is a sort of

Understanding the rise...

 I feel that I could just fade off into oblivion and not maintain any form of social currency. So with sound as my new art medium, I delved into the world of music. And I was surprised to see the similarities between music and ASL.

The enchanting music of...

 For Shelley, the terror was not supernatural, but born in a lab. In addition, gothic devices infuse the text. The gothic genre is characterized by unease, eerie settings, the grotesque, and the fear of oblivion -

Everything you need to...

 get much farther it gets double-teamed on his way to oblivion when the caterpillar calls for help help arrives this is natural symbiosis at its finest creatures adapting themselves to

Personal Ant Army PIPE...

 in some obscure corner of your spleen. It has floated away down a dark mythological river whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall, well on your own way to oblivion

Billy Collins: Everyday...

 on my way to oblivion, and all doctrines will suffer the same fate, and there is not one nation that has not proclaimed itself the chosen people.

Jorge Drexler: Poetry,...

 hibernation isn't something an animal just wakes up from even after surviving here for seven months if the transition from oblivion to

A Collection Of Spring...

 Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.