Definition of Cease

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Definition of Cease
	Cease To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. To put a stop to; to bring to an end. Extinction. Related Definitions: An, As, Away, Be, Bring, Ceased, Come, Desist, End, Extinction, Fail, Give, Leave, Noise, Off, Or, Over, Pass, Put, Stop, The, To, Wanting

Cease Quotations

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

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

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Bob Dylan

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

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.
Anais Nin

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde

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

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Cease Translations

cease in Afrikaans is ophou
cease in Dutch is aflaten, ophouden, stoppen
cease in Finnish is lakata
cease in French is cessez, cessons, cessent
cease in Italian is cessare
cease in Latin is desino, desino (desiit)
cease in Portuguese is cesse
cease in Spanish is cesar

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