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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.
What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.
I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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.
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.
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 longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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.
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
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?
Freedom is like a man who kills himself
Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood.
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.
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.
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.
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.
Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.
There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.
The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.
The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.
Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
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.
