#Oblivion Quotes

“Give me to drink mandragora.”

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

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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

“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.”

“How soon will time cover all things.”

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

“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”

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

“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.”

“The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”

“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.”

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

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