Oblivious Quotes

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset

“It was Will’s turn to flush. James lay like a sleeping Ganymede, his enervated beauty belying the cruelty and destruction he had rained down on the Stewards. Will hadn’t fluffed James’s pillow, but he had brought him a drink and a blanket. And hung his jacket to dry on the mantel. And his shirt.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir

“Maybe you're dead inside and don't even know it.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“You're awful.' He said it as though he was delighted. 'And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“I have a keen sense of the oblivious”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdogs

“She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.”
― Ali Smith

“Never had I felt so much the slave as when I scoured those stone steps each afternoon. Working against time, I would wet five steps, sprinkle soap powder, then a white doctor or a nurse would come and, instead of avoiding the soppy steps, walk on them and track the dirty water onto the steps that I had already cleaned. To obviate this, I cleaned but two steps at a time, a distance over which a ten-year-old child could step. But it did no good. The white people still plopped their feet down into the dirty water and muddled the other clean steps. If I ever really hotly hated unthinking whites, it was then. Not once during my entire stay at the institute did a single white person show enough courtesy to avoid a wet step.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Often times leaders can become so content with delegating others to find solutions to the problems that they are oblivious to the fact that they're part of it.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff Davis

“What agenda does this universe have?
What game is it I am oblivious to?”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“You don't know the true meaning of BEAUTY if you see it everywhere but in your own life.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“It wasn't that Elain was cruel. She wasn't like Nesta, who had been born with a sneer on her face. Elain sometimes just... didn't grasp things. It wasn't meanness that kept her from offering to help; it simply never occurred to her that she might be capable of getting her hands dirty. I'd never been able to decide whether she actually didn't understand that we were truly poor or if she just refused to accept it. It still hadn't stopped me buying her seeds for the flower garden she tended in the milder months, whenever I could afford it.

And it hadn't stopped her from buying me three small tins of paint- red, yellow, and blue- during that same summer I'd had enough to buy the ash arrow. It was the only gift she'd ever given me, and out house still bore the marks of it, even if the paint was now fading and chipped: little vines and flowers along the windows and thresholds and edges of things, tiny curls of flame on the stones bordering the hearth. And spare minute I'd had that bountiful summer, I used to bedeck out house in colour, sometimes hiding clever decorations inside drawers, behind the threadbare curtains, underneath the chairs and table.

We hadn't had a summer that easy since.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Some people will notice, your reaction of detachment; yet, never consider how their actions led to that decision.”
― Morgan Richard Olivier

“Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool

“Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.”
― Stephen Graham Jones

“Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things, and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.”
― Neil Gaiman

“But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The summer was long gone, but I hadn't noticed until then.”
― Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

“Run with God or crawl with men. Although the choice seems blatantly obvious, the world seems ruefully oblivious.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There were tears in both of their eyes. They were just happy to be in each other’s presence. No words were required. They were oblivious of their surroundings.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Can I have this chance

“Meanwhile, at our present level of development, largely oblivious to our origins and our destination, we are half-asleep in frog pajamas.”
― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“The masses appear oblivious that there is almost no government regulation of corrupt and incompetent police officers.”
― Steven Magee

“Dana had one arm. He'd lost the other one to cancer. Being the film freak I was, I never bothered to ask about it further. Or even what his last name was. Not enough time before or between the films. A one-armed schoolteacher, teaching kids in the shitty L.A. school district, probably full of more stories and personality than the electric fables being projected above us. But I was more focused on the mummies and vampires and dinosaurs and aliens to take a deeper interest in an actual, unique human being sitting right next to me. Such was my addiction, at that point. Cut off from the world. A ghost, but breathing and jacketed with flesh.”
― Patton Oswalt, Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

“Upon hearing the door open, Rhys turned toward me. The grin that had been on his face faltered,

'Feyre.' Rhys's eyes lingered, taking in every detail. 'Are you running low on food here?'

'What?' Tamlin demanded.

Those violet eyes had gone cold. Rhys extended a hand toward me. 'Let's go.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called:

'Listen'
The last lines were -

I know you know you do it,
it doesn't matter to you at all
you just want to keep on
talking
a verbal waterfall”
― Steven Wright, Harold

“I could have had her right there, in front of everyone. She would have welcomed it.”

“But you didn’t.”

“It wouldn’t have been fair.”

“To who?” My voice was tight with confusion.

“Her. I wouldn’t be thinking about her.”

“What would you be thinking about?”

He groaned, his eyes closing momentarily. He breathed deeply, his exhale carrying another rough sound. “Not what. Who.”
― Jane Washington, A City of Whispers