Then at some point he realized: time had entered the shit itself, had become the shit: Poor Tony had become an hourglass: time moved through him, now; he ceased to exist apart from its flow.
The time between HIStory and King of Pop represented a period in which he ceased to exist according to any previous definition of pop stardom and become something more nebulous.
Nor, for the purposes of this writing, has he ceased to exist; he has simply stepped into the quicksilver of a mirror as we all must — to leave our illnesses, or evil acts, the hornets' nest of our desires, still operative for good or evil in the real world — which is the memory of our friends.
The track features lines such as "Caesar didn't see it, so he ceased to exist / So the nigga that killed him had keys to his shit" which have been interpreted as insults towards artists such as Dame Dash, Beanie Sigel and Wiz Khalifa.
Instead of focusing on the nearly immeasurable moment when a species ceases to exist, he and other biologists say, science should focus harder on the forces that lead toward extinction -- the destruction or fragmentation of habitat, the introduction of invasive species, the appropriation of water or other vital resources.
He was sick of the fear that always rose up in him: that he would cease to exist, and that somehow he and Udayan would cease to be brothers, were Subhash to resist him.
Now Carrey is contemplating a further disappearance, the erasure of that popular persona — what he meant, perhaps, when he insisted to that fashion reporter that he had ceased to exist.
If he didn't find food, and quickly, his starving belly would consume his own flesh, and he would cease to exist.
"Without Condé Nast, he would cease to exist," says a person close to him.
Further, supposing that Zeus did exist in ancient times, do we really have evidence that he has ceased to exist?
