I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.
Tags: love simple pleasure oblivion inevitable doomed
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert MacfarlaneTags: inspirational adventure humility arrogance mountains oblivion mountaineering
The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears.
But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for 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.
Haruki MurakamiTags: memories oblivion time-passing
Oblivion cures the old wounds.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom wounds poetry literature wound oblivion thoughts cure cures poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
Only as many pages, only as much ink
To accept all of us at light-speed
Hurrying into the Promised Land
Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.
Tags: wisdom words poetry time literature space waiting desire oblivion quotes thoughts ink pages promised-land poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic light-speed
What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.
William FaulknerTags: life memories oblivion mementos making-your-mark notice
And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
John GreenHe was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.
Stephen KingTags: existence indifference oblivion significance means
Yo ya no sé que escribir... Es mi forma de saber que ya te olvidé
J. PorcupineTags: love writing oblivion amor escribir olvido
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