Quotes About Cessation

In Buddhism we also interprete Dharma to mean 'cessation,' as in the end of dissatisfaction, the end of dukkha. This is the purpose of Buddha's teachings.

And then it was over

One who has reached a goal no longer travels the road"(Pauline Christianity, p. 111)

For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination, of mental formations leading to desire leading to clinging leading to suffering and so on. Nibbana, or nirvana, was not originally conceived as some magical heavenly world, or even a permanent altered state of consciousness. It is usually described, in the early texts, negatively: as a candle being snuffed out.

I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

Muerto el perro, se acabó la rabia'.

It's over. Absolutely, completely, eternally over

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.

Now that I have taken my revenge on my enemy and have made a name for myself, I can lay down my swords, bows, and arrows.

Having this, then, we must inherit that; destroying this, then that is ended too; no birth, old age, disease, or death; no earth, or water, fire, or wind. No beginning, end, or middle; and no deceptive systems of philosophy; this is the standpoint of wise men and sages; the certain and exhausted termination, complete Nirvâna. Such

And last of all comes death.

Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

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

It's like she said: when she's done, she's done.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration

Essentially, kill criteria create a precommitment contract to quit.

Oh, what did it matter? This night, this glow, the cessation of anxiety and the sense that if living was not purposeful it was, at any rate, essentially romantic!

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.

stop exercise in every form.