The seasons halted; living things ceased their growth, then began to die.

It is a world of temporality where all things will one day cease to be.

And when the will is defective or lost, the thing ceases to exist.

But such things had now ceased to matter, though the bureaucracy didn't know it yet.

Imperceptibly, such things as age and location ceased to have any significance whatever.

When you are in love such things cease to matter.

But those things, always an integral part of his temperament, had almost wholly ceased.

The things of which she was a part, his house, his friends, had ceased to exist.

Don't make it worse by deliberately creating black holes where things suddenly cease to exist.

The things he chose to care about never ceased to amaze her.