Incessant Quotes

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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

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.

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

We go in withering July To ply the hard incessant hoe; Panting beneath the brazen sky We sweat and grumble, but we go.

What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.