Formless Quotes

94 quotes by 55 authors

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter,… — Charles Lindbergh
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing… — Anais Nin
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we… — Audre Lorde
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but… — Michel de Montaigne
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the… — Adrienne Rich
To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let… — H P Lovecraft
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic… — Oscar Wilde
In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All… — Leonard Cohen
The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother?… — Sue Monk Kidd
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of… — Zora Neale Hurston
Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush… — Kristin Hannah
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey… — Rabindranath Tagore
An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a… — C.S. Lewis
... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me,… — Margaret Atwood
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a… — Cormac McCarthy
Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It… — Bella Pollen
He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing,… — A. S. Byatt
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle… — Bruce Lee
When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no… — Bruce Lee

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