OBLIVION

Related Subjects: Darkness, Forgetfulness, Memory, Nothingness

1. Our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist.—Apocrypha: Wisdom of Solomon
   

2. Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Urn-Burial
   

3. Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.—CARLYLE, Essays
   

4. And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing.—HOMER, Odyssey
   

5. As for life, it is a battle and sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

6. And if I drink oblivion of a day,
   So shorten I the stature of my soul.—GEORGE MEREDITH, Modern Love
   

7. Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
   Lethe, the River of Oblivion, rolls Her wat'ry labyrinth, whereof who drinks
   Forthwith his former state and being forgets.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

8. Cancell'd from Heav'n and sacred memory,
   Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

9. Where dust and damned oblivion is the tomb
   Of honour'd bones.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
   

10. And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

11. What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
    And formless ruin of oblivion.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida