Quotes About Ceasing

Wisdom is the clear seeing of the impermanent, conditioned nature of all phenomena, knowing that whatever arises has the nature to cease. When we see this impermanence deeply, we no longer cling; and when we no longer cling, we come to the end of suffering.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Everything must come to an end, you know!

When you're dead, you're done.

Cakes are done. People are finished

The most important thing I realised was that the deepest source of my suffering is in the patterns of my own mind. When I want something and it doesn't happen, my mind reacts by generating suffering. Suffering is not an objective condition in the outside world. It is a mental reaction generated by my own mind. Learning this is the first step towards ceasing to generate more suffering.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Everything has a built in ending

When you die it's the end of your life.

Christianity is under attack globally, and particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, where Christian populations are ceasing to exist at astonishing rates due to widespread persecution by Islamists.

He goes Unto NIRVÂNA. He is one with Life, Yet lives not. He is blest, ceasing to be. OM, MANI PADME, OM! the Dewprop slips Into the shining sea!

If instead it reacted it meant that precedents had failed me and I was wrong; and the only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

I must confess, by death here, I can understand nothing but a ceasing to be, the losing of all actions of life and sense.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

Just as there are four nucleobases (cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine) that make up DNA, the nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for all living organisms, one might say that suffering, arising, ceasing, and path are the four nucleobases that make up the dharma, the body of instructive ideas, values, and practices that give rise to all forms of Buddhism.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.

They were all around us that day. In the confusion of air. In our strange dreams. In the baggage we'd brought with us and would have to leave. In our fading animal memories: The humming gold of being, and ceasing to be. The exposed motor of eternity.

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.