Lethe Quotes

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  • That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

  • You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.

  • We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

    Dream   Might   Lethe  
    Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.113
  • I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest-- Then why should my soul be so sad? I know thou art gone where the weary are blest, And the mourner looks up, and is glad; I know thou hast drank of the Lethe that flows In a land where they do not forget, That sheds over memory only repose, And takes from it only regret.

    Death   Art   Memories  
  • We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

    Dream   Sleep   Serious  
    Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics
  • Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

    Grief   Rivers   Joy  
  • We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

    Dream   Names   Waiting  
    Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.113
  • And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

    Baby   Boredom   Car  
    Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Faber & Faber
  • And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

    Philosophy   Years   May  
    1924 Grace after Meat,'Parting at Dawn'.
  • A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze!

    Sweet   Art   Wine  
    Edgar Lee Masters, “On A Bust”
  • Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

    Pain   Hate   Grief  
    John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”
  • Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

    Dream   Sleep   Fancy  
    William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.298
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