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Quotes About Incessant

El Destino (tal es el nombre que aplicamos a la infinita operación incesante de millares de causas entreveradas) no lo resolvió así.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood. The armies kill themselves, And in their blood an ancient evil dies— The action of incorrigible tragedy.
~ Wallace Stevens
The internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.
~ James Madison
Incessant junk rhythm music thrashed the air as if this was the ventricle of some massive heart on tetrameth.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Deep within me there is a radical, intimate, bitter and incessant boredom which prevents me from enjoying anything and which smothers my soul. It reappears at any excuse, just as the swollen corpses of drowned dogs pop to the surface despite the stones that have been tied round their necks
~ Julian Barnes
It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth--reality is the fastest American commodity.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.
~ John Milton
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin
~ Richelle Mead
Human nature - the Thucydidean pantheon of fear, self-interest, and honor - makes for a world of incessant conflict and coercion.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
~ James Blake
Literary theory, especially, cast its lot with a spirit of ceaseless skepticism and incessant interrogation; modeling itself on Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust, it was "der Geist, der stets verneint"—the spirit that always negates.
~ Rita Felski
Most human restlessness and pain is the result of the Spirit's incessant demand that humans live from the deepest part of their being.
~ Robert J. Grant
But the one thing I don't understand is the incessant strain of the mind and will, the diabolical waste of spiritual strength.
~ A. I. Kuprin
But Tony, though he had never heard of the word attrition, had great faith in his own powers of wearing down his mother's resistance. He had found by long experience that if one asked for a thing often enough, simply ignoring rebuffs and refusals, one could usually get what one wanted.
~ Angela Margaret Thirkell
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
~ Douglas MacArthur
am always on
~ Franz Kafka
Contemporary capitalism brings everything we do, touch, and are, increasingly under the imperative for profit, causing incessant change with little regard for human and environmental consequences.
~ Ronald Aronson
I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.
~ Carrie Fisher
For raging wind blows up incessant showers
~ Shakespeare
Beetles never stop. They gnaw silently and relentlessly. Guilt is like that too.
~ Gregg Olsen
It's beyond TMI - oversharing is not just too much information; it's incessant sharing of non-information - breaking news about your gluten-free diet complete with duck face selfies.
~ Faith Salie
Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
~ Robert Hass
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
~ Katharine Lee Bates