Lifeless Quotes

134 quotes by 127 authors

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the… — George H. W. Bush
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are… — Thomas Brooks
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes… — Hannah Arendt
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void. — Fabien Cousteau
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. — Martin Luther
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is… — Reuben Fine
Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure… — Thomas Browne
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared… — John Ruskin
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the… — Olaf Stapledon
Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold, but it's value is far greater than a mountain made of gold. For gold… — Natalie
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them — Ibn Ata Allah
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the… — Toby Hemenway
If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless. — Nancy Lancaster
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. — Rose Tremain
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its… — C.S. Lewis

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