Top 18 Incessant Quotes

But man does not create...he discovers.

Men, Doe, Incessantly

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

Incessant, Solitary, Confinement

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.341, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

Lucy Larcom

Slave, Enough, Incessant

Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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

Jonathan Swift

Envy, Common, Incessant

Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.327

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.

Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual, Thinking, Incessant

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.168, Penguin

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Robert Hass

Writing, Discovery, Incessant

"'What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World,' by Robert Hass". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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

Mary McCarthy

Incessant, Labor, Behinds

Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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.

John Milton

Prayer, Cry, Incessant

John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost”, p.310

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

C. S. Lewis

Age, Aging, Incessant

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

Paul Cezanne

Progress, Form, Incessant

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

Donal Henahan

Brain, Listening, Incessant

"Music View; When Inspired Awfulness Becomes Interesting" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1986.

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

Michel de Montaigne

Incessant, Loud, Strokes

Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.193

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

Gordon B. Hinckley

Harvest, Incessant, Constant

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

Arnulf Rainer

Incessant, Motifs, Originals

Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition”, Not Avail

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

Michel de Montaigne

Running, Scolding, Incessant

Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton, William Carew Hazlitt (2012). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.157, Courier Corporation

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Juvenal

Age, Incessant, Old Age

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

James Russell Lowell

Past, Safe, Incessant

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics