Paradoxically, however, a story ceases to be like life on its last page. Life goes on, but the story does not. Its characters have no vitality outside the first page and after the last is only good as the next reader's. - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. - George Iles
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist; you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe. - Debasish Mridha
At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveller sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there. - Angela Carter
When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. - Anthony Burgess
The simplicity of life never ceases to amaze me, and the many ways we complicate it blows my mind. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. - Unknown
When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function. - J. G. Hamann
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. - John Cheever
You never actually solve a problem. You just become a better person by understanding it in a better way. Then it ceases to be a problem for you. - Debasish Mridha
You know it never ceases to amaze me how people twist your words.I used to et it bother me that I was so misunderstood, but now I realise, I can tell a lot about people by what they CHOOSE to see in me - Karen Gibbs
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Spring procreates, Summer develops, Autumn debilitates & Winter ceases to be. Meeting all forms of life. - Isabella Schorno
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him. - Abraham Lincoln
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. - William Hazlitt
If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. - Anthony Burgess
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. - Duke Ellington
Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma. - Jean-Marie Lehn
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw
For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true - Robert Frost
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other. - Ayn Rand
An adult who ceases after youth to unlearn and relearn his facts and to reconsider his opinions... is a menace to a democratic community. - Edward Thorndike
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. - William Hutton
Come clean about your true nature before the day the body ceases. Hard not to cling to duality as the excuse, but every brain is manifesting duality as if it is some internal feature projected outward for the attention of others. - James Emlund
Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life. - E.M. Forster
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice - Viktor E. Frankl
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. - Homer
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. - André Gide