"Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past."

"It is not in the storm nor in the strife We feel benumb'd, and wish to be no more, But in the after-silence on the shore, When all is lost, except a little life."

"For those sacred powers Tread on oblivion: no desert of ours Can be entombed in their celestial breasts."

"Oblivion is not to be hired."

"Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain."

"Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world."

"As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that."

"Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs."

"Wishing to grab the life with nothingness wanting to erase the sigh of tiredness forgetting myself completely from my being why do I seek embrace of yours do not ask me, I know not, I am in oblivion."

"I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom."

"Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion."

"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away."

"Only the dead could afford oblivion."

"There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it."

"I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark."

"Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves."

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."

"It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion."

"Time, that aged nurse Rocked me to patience."

"In records that defy the tooth of time."

"Therefore fear not to assay To gather, ye that may, The flower that this day Is fresher than the next."

"Delivered from the galling yoke of time."

"Our time is a very shadow that passeth away."

"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time."

"And let its meaning permeate Whatever comes, This too shall pass away."

"To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time."

"The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made."

"Time tries the troth in everything."

"Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away.""

"I dimly guess what Time in mists confounds; Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds From the hid battlements of Eternity; Those shaken mists a space unsettle, then Round the half-glimpsed turrets slowly wash again."

"Heu! universum triduum!"

"I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?"

"Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born."

"Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears."

"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them."

"Lauriger Horatius Quam dixisti verum; Fugit euro citius Tempus edax rerum."

"Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last."

"Nick of Time!"

"In time take time while time doth last, for time Is no time when time is past."

"I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things."

"Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes joy."

"Too late I staid, forgive the crime, Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flow'rs! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass? Ah! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings?"

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."

"Goe to my Love where she is carelesse layd Yet in her winter's bowere not well awake; Tell her the joyous time will not be staid Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take."

"Time wears all his locks before, Take thou hold upon his forehead; When he flies he turns no more, And behind his scalp is naked. Works adjourn'd have many stays, Long demurs breed new delays."

"For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay."

"For time would, with us, 'stead of sand, Put filings of steel in his glass, To dry up the blots of his hand, And spangle life's page as they pass. Since all flesh is grass ere 'tis hay, O may I in clover lie snug, And when old Time mow me away, Be stacked with defunct Lady Mugg!"

"Per varios præceps casus rota volvitur ævi."

"Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?"