Oblivious Quotes

• The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual

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• Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

  Louis Aragon

  Love, Two, People

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• The most oblivious people are often the happiest.

  George Meyer

  People

  The Believer Interview, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 1, 2004.

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• The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

  Gore Vidal

  Stupidity, Fool

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• If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

  Markus Zusak

  Laughter, Knowing, Laughing

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.349, RH Childrens Books

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• You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

  Jon Lovitz

  Character, Actors, Facts

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• I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

  Keith Urban

  Thinking, Vanity, People

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• In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

  Carole King

  Careers, Obstacles, Being A Woman

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• The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Differences, Phones, Cells

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• When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Sad, Dark

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Jul 18, 2012

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• It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

  Barbara Olson

  Believe, Law, Als

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• All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

  Haruki Murakami

  Perfect, Imperfection, Imperfect

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• Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

  Ann Patchett

  Tennessee, Persons, Loops

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• The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

  Ian Mcewan

  Dream, Cost, Littles

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.76, Random House

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• Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

  Henri Bergson

  Motivational, Spiritual, Philosophy

  "On Intuition vs. Intellect" by Henri Bergson, 1907.

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• I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.

  Nate Saint

  Christian, Prayer, Sick

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• She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.

  Henry Miller

  Beautiful, Eye, Sea

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• I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Twilight

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Race, Creative, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

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• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spring, Being In Love, Mysterious

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• You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

  Damien Hirst

  Order, People, Use

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• From living in my own little secluded hell in this world, oblivious to the world around me, I found sanctuary with the bears, where I had made peace with myself of the consequences I have allowed while living in society.

  Timothy Treadwell

  World, Sanctuary, Littles

  "Steve Irwin - Interview With Timothy Treadwell - the Grizzly Man". Interview with Steve Irwin, desteni.org. June 1, 2007.

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• If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

  William Deresiewicz

  Hurt, People, Chance

  William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.28, Penguin

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• Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it.  Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go.  Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.

  Gerald Hausman

  Letting Go, Bravery, Heroism

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