Dead Thing Quotes

25 Dead Thing quotes by 22 unique authors

Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is… — Annie Besant
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of… — Thomas Aquinas
Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise… — Rajneesh
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery… — Rajneesh
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential… — Susan Hill
A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth,… — Plutarch
To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It… — Rajneesh
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that… — Leonard Sweet
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations,… — John Donne
Relationship and love are totally different things. Love is never a relationship, and relationship is never love. Love relates, but it is not a relationship.… — Rajneesh
My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead. — Tom Riley
Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a… — Elizabeth Goudge
People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or… — P. C. Cast
Islam is a dead thing. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. — Cyril Connolly
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. — Herbert Spencer
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable… — David Foster Wallace
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow. — Lev S. Vygotsky
When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a… — Rumi
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption… — Thomas Merton
Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They… — Leslie Marmon Silko
There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life. — Kristin Cashore
The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. — John Fowles

Who Wrote These Dead Thing Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 25 Dead Thing Quotes as follows: