"Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds……" — William Golding
"Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars."
More Ceased Quotes
- Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have… — Bernard Baruch
- I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try… — Conrad Black
- I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use… — John Cleese
- My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of… — Julian Huxley
- God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
- When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I… — Paulo Coelho
- One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But… — F. H. Bradley
- When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never… — Edith Hamilton
- Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist. — Adolf Hitler
- The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing… — Hermann Hesse
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To… — Mark Twain