Ceased

Famous quotes containing the word ceased:

“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.””
—F.H. (Francis Herbert)

“Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“What between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That’s all that can be said about land.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)