Inanimate Quotes

94 Inanimate quotes by 86 unique authors

I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped… — Hayden Carruth
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. — Philip Treacy
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. — Loren Eiseley
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man… — William Jennings Bryan
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their… — Joseph de Maistre
The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess.… — Ed Buckner
We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to… — Frederick Lenz
What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and… — Arno Hintjens
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you… — John Galt
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the… — Charles Krauthammer
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its… — Orison Swett Marden
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. — Mike Mills
Never fight an inanimate object. — P.J. O'Rourke
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. — Conor Oberst
When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life. — Mitt Romney
I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and… — Jill Scott
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact… — Tom Wolfe
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the… — Wallace Stevens
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the… — Erich Fromm
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. — David Sedaris
...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a… — Che Guevara
When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response… — Kelley Armstrong
Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible life sounds strange.… — Elizabeth Scott

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