Oblivion Quotes

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husksAnd formless ruin of oblivion.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

Give me to drink mandragora.

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

How soon will time cover all things.

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.