Quotes About Cessation

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.

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

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day — by dying.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.

Maybe he was dead and this island was purgatory from which he could only watch the souls of the more deserving go shuttling past to their various Edens. What is death, after all, but a cessation of involvement with the world, a departure from those you love, and those who love you?

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

Cessation is believed to be a direct insight into an unconditioned reality (Pali: Nibb?na; Sanskrit: Nirvana) that lies behind all manifest phenomena.

Counterintuitive though it may sound, joy can also arise from properly understanding impermanence. The Buddha says: 'When, by knowing the impermanence, change, fading away, and cessation of forms, one sees … with proper wisdom that forms … are all impermanent, suffering, and subject to change, joy arises.

Stein's law," named after the famous economist Herbert Stein from the 1970s: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

The comedy is finished.

Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.

Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.

This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

Step Zero, which is: Ã¢â'¬Å"This shit has got to stop.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

I have ceased to care about anything. I have no personal ambition, or even the desire that people call me nice, or pretty, or witty. Nor do I have any use for sensation, nor do I care. Cessation. It is a technical circle, encircling, cycle, of giving the body to be burned, but having no charity. ... What can I do? For without love I am truly dead.

The nature of mind as the element of space does not [depend upon] causes or conditions, nor does it [depend on] a gathering of these. It has neither arising, cessation, nor abiding.

Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.

And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness.

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

The dance is over.

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