Quotes About Cessation

In the first instant of seeing, of knowing, Catell heard the terrible sounds of everything that breaks, bursts, and rips apart beyond repair, and the mad turning of all that moves, speeds, dashes about for a while, turning like a giant wheel, around, around. Then the wheel stopped.

And that, said John, is that.

One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

the city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after.

The last day of the war provided chilling closure. The ending, in its ferocity, bloodiness, and uselessness, contained the entire war in microcosm. The fighting went on for the hollowest of reasons: no one knew how to stop it.

When we see deeply that all that is subject to arising is also subject to cessation, that whatever arises will also pass away, the mind becomes disenchanted. Becoming disenchanted, one becomes dispassionate. And through dispassion, the mind is liberated.

Whatever is of the nature of arising, all that is of the nature of cessation.

I hope the string and clapper arrangement he calls a mind has been permanently put out of action.

And so the Universe ended.

People can have strong emotional reactions when their meditation gets towards the cessation of the ego. Panic and terror often become quite strong at those times. One can feel as though one is dying ? that is the message you can get from the conditioning of the mind.

Notice that this reflective paradigm of the statement, the prescription, and the result are the three aspects of each noble truth. The first Noble Truth is 'understanding', the second is 'letting go of the causes', the third is 'realizing cessation', and the fourth is 'cultivating awareness in the ordinariness of life'.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

The illusory self, which exists conventionally and dependently, on the basis of its component parts, simply ceases to exist when those parts are rent asunder.

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

The only time I really think is when I smoke, and I quit smoking years ago.

I know only one truth: it's time for all of this to end.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

His cares are now all ended.