Human nature Quote by Alan Watts

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

— Alan Watts

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

— Camille Paglia

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

— Ian Mcewan

Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

— Ibn Ata Allah

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that…

— Henrik Ibsen

There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old…

— Beryl Markham

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...lifeless and shockingly alien in that place where dissolution itself was a seething turmoil of ejaculation tumescence conception and birth, and death did not…

— William Faulkner

... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he…

— Saint Augustine

“The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were…

— Steve Hockensmith

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

— Gilbert Highet

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King