Incessant Quotes - Page 7

• 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!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Anxiety, Done, Disease

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.159, Penguin

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• A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Presence Of Mind, Quality, Add

  "Rachmaninoff's Recollections". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, p. 155, 1934.

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

  Arnulf Rainer

  Motifs, Originals, Edges

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

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• That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.

  Elif Safak

  Rain, Ifs And, Sorrow

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• It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Men, Discipline, Humanity

  "International Futurism in Arts and Literature" by Günter Berghaus, (p. 318), 2000.

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• 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, Weary

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

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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.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Lying, Men, Order

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• 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, New Earth

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

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

  Milan Kundera

  Order, Life Is, Longing

  Milan Kundera (1977). “The farewell party”, Viking Pr

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• Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

  Karen White

  Memories, Heart, Loss

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.12, Penguin

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