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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my 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 gods idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs."

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

"And oer the past oblivion stretch her wing."

"Whats past and whats to come is strewd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion."

"He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more."

"Injuriarum remedium est oblivio."

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