Oblivion

consciousness permanently ceases upon death

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

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  • It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
  • [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
  • I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
  • I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
  • Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

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Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 564-65.
  • Oblivion is not to be hired.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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