Quotes with ceased

  • Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
  • The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
  • In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

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  • Mark Twain Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • C. S. Lewis If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ouida In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Shirley Maclaine A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
    Shirley Maclaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aeschines For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
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  • Susan Sontag Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Germaine Greer Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Arthur Helps Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Eric Hoffer Man was nature's mistake - she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Günter Grass Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Oscar Wilde My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Machen Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Francis H. Bradley One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Francis H. Bradley The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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