Incessant Quotes

112 Incessant quotes by 99 unique authors

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a… — Marcus Aurelius
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to… — Eckhart Tolle
I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant… — Wilkie Collins
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit… — Nikos Kazantzakis
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and… — R A Salvatore
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens… — Christopher Hitchens
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. — Milan Kundera
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in… — Victor Hugo
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but… — Leo Tolstoy
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it… — Eckhart Tolle
I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. — Henry David Thoreau
Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing… — Karen White
incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was… — David Levithan
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. — Josef Pieper
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of… — Walt Whitman
Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in… — Suzanne Collins
To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling. — P.G. Wodehouse
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts,… — Anais Nin
Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so… — Alexander Hamilton
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. — Katharine Lee Bates
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control… — Martha Beck

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