William Shakespeare Quotes About Oblivion

• Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
  Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
  A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
  Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
  As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Monsters

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

• Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Lasts, Taste

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

• Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Hair, Cities

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing

• And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, Upbraid, Blind

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing

• What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
  And formless ruin of oblivion.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Ruins

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.595

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