Definition of Oblivion

Oblivion

The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.

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Oblivion Quotations

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Charles Schumer

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 P. Smith

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Daniel Libeskind

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
Carolyn Murphy

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

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

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

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

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

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Philip Wylie

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

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley

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

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

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.
William Rose Benet

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Oblivion Translations

oblivion in German is Vergessenheit, Nichtbeachtung
oblivion in Italian is oblio
oblivion in Latin is oblivio

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