Sentence examples for ceasing to live from inspiring English sources

"Sloth is giving up," Uncle Irwin explains to him, "ceasing to live while you're still alive".

'The end of life' first means ceasing to live, then it means purpose.

And regularly, though she had ceased to live there in 1976, that place was India.

Napoleon Napoleon never ceased to live in extreme jeopardy, and to defy narrative conventions.

The pace of change is such that individuals cease to live in real time.

By his own account to me, he had never ceased to live in fear of returning to the psych ward where his early suicide attempt had landed him.

She liked to discover and nurture original talent; but when it became commercially successful or ceased to live dangerously, she lost interest.

And yet, he also acknowledges that once he was charged with the task of carrying out the final solution, he ceased to live by Kantian principles.

Their argument: After taking over the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he had ceased to live and work in Massachusetts, the state where he had built Bain Capital into one of the leading private equity firms in the world.

On 11 September 1929 the Wall Street Journal quoted Mark Twain for its thought of the day: "Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live".

He is riddled by doubt about the value of his life: 'The feeling again and again came upon me that as I was nearing thirty I should cease to live like a cow (perhaps a cow, with justice, might feel hurt at the comparison).' With savage irony, his bovine routine is disrupted by the death of his wife and the overwhelming grief that follows.