Ceased Quotes

331 Ceased quotes by 276 unique authors

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them. — Edith Wharton
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. — Henry David Thoreau
And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been… — Melina Marchetta
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. — Oscar Wilde
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has… — Andre Breton
A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love.… — Jean Vanier
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. — William Golding
I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can… — Cormac McCarthy
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed… — David Mitchell
Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. — William Golding
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young. — Glenway Wescott
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… — Richard Matheson
The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream. — Christopher Pike
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of… — Aldous Huxley
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief… — Marguerite Yourcenar
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the… — Albert Camus
Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands stilled. Eyes unblinking.… — Suzanne Collins
One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to… — Marcel Proust
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled… — Anne Fortier
It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of… — Terry Pratchett
I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it. — Charles Dickens
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost. — Baron de Montesquieu
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased… — W. Somerset Maugham

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