Dead Thing Quotes
25 Dead Thing quotes by 22 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.
— Tom Riley
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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
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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
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Islam is a dead thing.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
— Cyril Connolly
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
— Herbert Spencer
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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
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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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
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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
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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
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There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
— Kristin Cashore
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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: