“You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.” InspirationalDifferentPainDiesKnowingIgnoranceBuddhismSafeSecureNot KnowingOblivionIncarnationShuffle Author:Frederick Lenz
“If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.” IfsMenSoulAgeDiesFoundChancePovertyTalentGeniusExtraordinaryRefuseYieldWoeOblivionFirmnessWoe Unto Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.” YearsDiesGreaterWindStructureSeriesEndureFlightShowersPowerlessOblivionMemorialPyramidsUnendingBrassRegalNorth Wind Author:Horace
“Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.” PainDiesMankindCreaturesOblivion Author:Margaret Cavendish