Quotes About Cessation

We're done. Don't you see?

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

For the dead there are no more toils.

Q: How did the pirate stop smoking? A: He used the patch.

THE ACTIONS THAT accompany the four truths describe the trajectory of dharma practice: understanding anguish leads to letting go of craving, which leads to realizing its cessation, which leads to cultivating the path. These are not four separate activities but four phases within the process of awakening itself. Understanding matures into letting go; letting go culminates in realization; realization impels cultivation.

The Four are presented in that order because that is the order in which they occur as tasks to be performed: fully knowing suffering leads to the letting go of craving, which leads to experiencing its cessation, which leads to the cultivation of the path.

The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.

Poor fellow, he never schools his mind by a cessation from political ruminations, the most blinding, hardening and souring of all others.

This is the end of our sentence

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

Whatever has the nature to arise has the nature to cease.

Because today . . . this ends.

Obitus vitae otium est (Death is life's rest).

Every part has its relief when I'm done with it.

The heart never taking a break. The bowels never taking a nap. When it stopped, that was the day it was all over.

The teaching is concerned with the arising and cessation of suffering, which can be observed in one's own experience. It does not set up even the Buddha as an unimpeachable authority but invites us to examine him to determine whether he fully deserves our trust and confidence.

Era el desvarieig produït per l'absència d'una il·lusió sense retorn, la lassitud que deixen els fets acomplerts, el dolor, en fi, que promou la interrupció de tot moviment acostumat, la sobtada cessació d'una vibració perllongada.

In India, there is a word that means both "cessation" and "satisfaction" as a single linked concept. The word is nirvana.

the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.

Death cancels all engagements.

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

Un viento diurno cesará al anochecer, un viento nocturno cesará al amanecer.