Being an old maid is like death by drowning a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death one dies one's life.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts or at best part of the public character or at worst catchwords.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

People never cease to amaze me.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.