All 10 Uses
oblivion
in
The Fault in Our Stars
(Edited)
- "I fear oblivion," he said without a moment's pause.
p. 12.1oblivion = no longer existing and being forgotten
- You said you fear oblivion?
p. 12.4
- And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
p. 13.4
- Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything."
p. 16.9
- I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.
p. 153.8
- But you fear oblivion.
p. 168.6
- Sure, I fear earthly oblivion.
p. 168.7
- The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life.
p. 168.8
- We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus when Gus told us that he feared oblivion,
p. 281.6
- ...the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.
p. 281.7 *oblivion = no longer existing and being forgotteneditor's notes: In this context, nihilism refers to the belief that life and suffering are meaningless. People who believe in some religions or moral frameworks might find meaning in suffering, but those who believe in nihilism reject such beliefs.
Definitions:
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(1)
(oblivion) state of complete loss—being totally forgotten, wiped out, or lost to awareness of what is going on
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)