Incessantly Quotes

• So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Deep Thought

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.5.

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• There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, President, Politics

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• To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Happiness, Courage, Inner Peace

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• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Wedding, Monsters

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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

  Confucius

  Fate, Today, Wheels

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• Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Laughter, Laughing, Grumbling

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Heart, Law Of Attraction

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• Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

  James Bryce

  Science, America, Practice Of Medicine

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• Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Alive, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

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• It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

  Camille Pissarro

  Art, Character, Drawing

  Camille Pissarro, John Rewald (1963). “Camille Pissarro”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Apology, Later In Life, Feet

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

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• Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

  Willa Cather

  Rain, Paris, Hard

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, U of Nebraska Press

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• We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Attitude, Warrior

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• A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Appreciate, Pay, Compliment

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.190, Xist Publishing

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• But man does not create...he discovers.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Men, Doe

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• I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Religion, Atheism

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• Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

  Georges Bataille

  Mind, Sanity, Equilibrium

  Georges Bataille (1983). “L'abbé C: A Novel”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Fear, Men, Media

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• If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work, Lasts, Form

  Letter to Eckermann, February 04, 1829.

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• We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

  Charles de Lint

  Jobs, Cutting, Editing

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Talking, Ideas, Long

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Dream, Peace, War

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• A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Life, Ocean, Eye

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 384), 1895.

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• It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Drinking, Water, Doubt

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• He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

  H. G. Wells

  Patriotic, Proud, England

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.5303, Delphi Classics

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