Oblivion

Oblivion is an eternal state of lack of awareness thought by some to occur after death. This idea contradicts beliefs that there is an afterlife, such as a heaven or hell, after death. The idea of eternal oblivion stems from the idea that the brain creates the mind; therefore, when the brain dies, the mind ceases to exist. The name of the idea derives from the original meaning of the word, referring to a state of forgetfulness or distraction, or a state of being completely forgotten.

Quotes

 * Only the dead could afford oblivion.
 * Robert Jordan, New Spring, Chapter 1: The Hook. p. 5 (January 2004)

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 564-65.


 * Oblivion is not to be hired.
 * Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Chapter V.


 * For those sacred powers Tread on oblivion: no desert of ours Can be entombed in their celestial breasts.
 * William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III. Song II, Stanza 23.


 * 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.
 * Lord Byron, Lines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill, line 9.


 * 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.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, Introduction, Chapter I.


 * And o'er the past oblivion stretch her wing.
 * Homer, Odyssey, Book XXIV, line 557. Pope's translation.


 * He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
 * Job, VII. 10.


 * Injuriarum remedium est oblivio.
 * Oblivion is the remedy for injuries.
 * Seneca the Younger, Epistles, 94. Quoting from an old poet, also found in Syrus.


 * What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.
 * William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act IV, scene 5, line 166.


 * Eo magis præfulgebant quod non videbantur.
 * They shone forth the more that they were not seen.
 * Tacitus; adapted from Annals, Book III. 76.


 * But from your mind's chilled sky It needs must drop, and lie with stiffened wings Among your soul's forlornest things; A speck upon your memory, alack! A dead fly in a dusty window-crack.
 * Francis Thompson, "Manus Animam Pinxit", St. 2.