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Quotes About Cessation

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]
~ Tacitus
And just like that, it's over
~ T. Greenwood
The Buddha uses the framework of the four noble truths to formulate this insight: the first truth, the truth of suffering, is the illness. The second truth, the truth of the origin of suffering, refers to the cause of the illness. The third truth, the truth of cessation, is the understanding that a complete cure is possible. And the fourth truth, the truth of the path that leads to cessation, is the cure.
~ Tashi Tsering
I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.
~ Tawni O'Dell
And then, our universe will be in a state of absolute equilibrium. All life and thought will cease and, with them, time itself.
~ Ted Chiang
Everything has to come to an end, sometime.
~ L. Frank Baum
Fires all go out eventually.
~ Author Unknown
The definition of the word 'finished' is: 'This word means finished.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.
~ William de Morgan
There could be no such experience if death means extinction or cessation. Death always means separation, and it does in Romans 6 as well.
~ Charles C. Ryrie
One thousand Americans stop smoking every day — by dying.
~ Author Unknown
Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.
~ H Hahn Blavatsky
Durante la presidencia de Fujimori las masacres indiscriminadas de campesinos cesaron casi por completo.
~ Orin Starn
Four Noble Truths: the truth of the universality of suffering, the truth of the origin of suffering, the truth of the cessation of suffering, and the truth of the path leading to its cessation.
~ Dainin Katagiri
Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.
~ Patanjali
Enough, I can say no more.
~ Wilbur Smith
Death like style is the removal of rubbish.
~ Will Durant
Everything ends. It does. Sooner or later. This - all this - it has to end sometime.
~ Tony Parsons
When the fire of lust is gone out, then Nirv?na is gained; when the fires of hatred and delusion are gone out, then Nirv?na is gained; when the troubles of mind, arising from blind credulity, and all other evils have ceased, then Nirv?na is gained!
~ Paul Carus
Just as the Buddha taught, it's important to see suffering as suffering. We are not talking about ignoring or keeping quiet. When we don't buy into our opinions and solidify the sense of enemy, we will accomplish something. If we don't get swept away by our outrage, then we will see the cause of suffering more clearly. That is how the cessation of suffering evolves.
~ Pema Chodron
Au bout d'un moment, l'enfant cessa de lutter et posa ses mains
~ Unknown
It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.
~ Jennifer Weiner
If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.
~ Mike Colter
He aquí la muerte, fin de un universo.
~ Victor Serge