Cease Quotes

• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• I saw Hulk Hogan the other day in a parking lot, and I couldn't tell from a distance if it was Hulk Hogan or not. And I realized I've never had that dilemma before. I've always been able to tell immediately when looking at anybody if they were or were not Hulk Hogan.

  Kyle Cease

  Funny, Distance, Able

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• Like the children we will never ever cease to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children

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• Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Motivational, Success, Hope

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Moving On, Wise, Moving Forward

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Faith, Real

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

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• I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

  John Gresham Machen

  Family, Christian, School

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• To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Confidence, Creativity, Oneself

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• It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Believe, Reality

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• There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.

  Charles Darwin

  Long, World, Maps

  Charles Darwin, R. D. Keynes (2001). “Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary”, p.445, Cambridge University Press

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• This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

  Jane Addams

  Dream, Men, Competition

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Freedom, Men, Order

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.

  William Shakespeare

  Worst, Climbs

  William Shakespeare, James Robert Ballantyne (1858). “Shakspere's Play of Macbeth”, p.92

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• A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

  Marcel Proust

  Photography, Reality, Dignity

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.693, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will surely never dream of making, I don't say great discoveries, but even minor observations about sleep. He scarcely knows that he is asleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.69, Modern Library

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• The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Shine On, Light

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.84, Gideon House Books

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• Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Children, Night, Eternity

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• If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

  Isaac Asimov

  Mistake, Stupid, History

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.457, Spectra

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• In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.

  William Winwood Reade

  Art, War, Simple

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.

  William Winwood Reade

  Fall, Sleep, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.507

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• A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Weed, Moving, Sleep

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gary Scharnhorst (2012). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems”, p.7, Syracuse University Press

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• Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.

  Herbert Spencer

  Average, Trying, Citizens

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays--scientific, political and speculative”, p.324

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