Disembodied Quotes

39 quotes by 39 authors

Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that… — Frederick Lenz
In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The… — John Burroughs
My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about… — Robin McKinley
So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. — Joseph Conrad
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive… — Thomas Hardy
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man… — Thomas Merton
He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic. — Rachel Caine
I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and itâ€™s too dark to write or to do anything… — Katherine Mansfield
Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my… — Margaret Atwood
Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist… — W. Somerset Maugham
Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most… — Thomas Mann
Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia… — Derek Walcott
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body. — Antonio Damasio
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster. — Susan George
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. — Rupert Sheldrake
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be… — Serge Schmemann
People talk about the way disembodied spirits roam the world with no place to park themselves, but all I can think is that I am… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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