Famous quotes containing the word cease:
“It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 20:3.
“And some cease feeling
Even themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling,”
—Wilfred Owen (18931918)
“The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistancethat is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (18211881)
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