A sort of living oblivion. [ Horace Greeley ]

Oblivion is not to be hired. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

His great offence is dead,
And deeper than oblivion do we bury
The incensing relics of it. [ William Shakespeare ]

A sweet forgetfulness of human care. [ Pope ]

Oblivion: a remedy for human misery. [ A. de Musset ]

Among our crimes oblivion may be Bet. [ Dryden ]

And steep my senses in forgetfulness. [ William Shakespeare ]

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up. [ William Shakespeare ]

It lifts the boughs, whose shadows deep,
Are life's oblivion, the soul's sleep,
And kisses the closed eyes
Of him who slumbering lies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?
To lie in dead oblivion, losing half
The fleeting moments of too short a life;
Total extinction of the enlightened soul! [ James Thomson ]

The noblest remedy of injuries is oblivion. [ Proverb ]

And over the past oblivion stretch her wing. [ Homer ]

Through age both weak in body and oblivious. [ Latimer ]

It deserves with characters of brass,
A forted residence against the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love dies of satiety, and is buried in oblivion. [ La Bruyere ]

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. [ George Sand ]

What's past, and what's to come, is strewed with husks.
And formless ruin of oblivion. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. [ Longfellow ]

The swallowing gulf of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion. [ William Shakespeare ]

O oblivion! oblivion! what a pillow for the exhausted traveler! [ Ducis ]

Oblivion is a second death, which great minds dread more than the first. [ De Boufflers ]

Solitude is the worst of all companions when we seek comfort and oblivion. [ Mery ]

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only certainty is oblivion. [ Horace Greeley ]

Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness, and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. [ William Shakespeare ]

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. [ Ausonius ]

For ages the world has been waiting and watching; millions, with broken hearts, have hovered around the yawning abyss; but no echo has come back from the engulfing gloom - silence, oblivion, covers all. If indeed they survive; if they went away whole and victorious, they give us no signals. We wait for years, but no messages come from the far-away shore to which they have gone. [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]