Quotes About Ceasing To Exist

#1. If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

Mikhail Bakunin

#2. No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#3. Oh, let what I am keep on existing and ceasing to exist,
and let my obedience align itself with such iron
conditions
that the quaking of deaths and of births doesn't shake
the deep place I want to reserve for myself eternally.

Mark Eisner

#4. Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

Mikhail Bakunin

#5. We deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be

Seneca.

#6. Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Steve Earle

#7. Part of being alive is having life change us. The people around us, the events we live through, all of them shape us. And that's what I think you're afraid of. Maybe not of dying. But of this you, the you you've become, ceasing to exist.

Amie Kaufman

#8. Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey
for vengeance. If once he could go, his anger would bear him down all the roads of the world, pursuing, until he had him at last: Gollum. Then Gollum would die in a corner.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Mason Cooley

#10. Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.

Tom Robbins

#11. Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Flannery O'Connor

#12. Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.

Lora Leigh

#13. Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

Wayne Newton

#14. How could one doubt that the order in which one was picked for the softball team was anything but concurrent with the order in which Life would be handing out favors?

Lucy Grealy

#15. The older woman smiled. 'You're a good girl, my dear. Just what His Grace needs - someone to take him in hand.' Finley didn't think that meant quite what came to mind.

Kady Cross

#16. There is a connection between boredom and the desire for chaos. Despite many disguises and bluffs perhaps she had never stopped wanting chaos.

Zadie Smith

#17. I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.

Seungri

#18. Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.

Orrin Woodward

#19. If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Millicent Fenwick

#20. Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

Corbin Bernsen

#21. say, this is literally a pedestrian

Elizabeth Gilbert