Lifeless Quotes

134 Lifeless quotes by 120 unique authors

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there… — Martin Buber
It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees... — Andrew of Crete
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than… — Joseph Addison
Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our… — Marianne Williamson
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named… — Unknown Author
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly… — Roy Chapman Andrews
I just can't imagine a Heaven without children!-What a dead lifeless place without babies and kids! — David Berg
Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it… — Mahatma Gandhi
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with… — Georges Braque
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the… — Ellen Glasgow
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by… — Camille Paglia
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty… — Boris Pasternak
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog… — Anne Tyler
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless. — Mervyn Peake
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts
She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted… — Markus Zusak
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only… — Shannon Hale
Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul… — Laura Esquivel
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant… — Cormac McCarthy
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I… — Graham Greene
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or… — Jonathan Edwards
I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and… — Anais Nin
Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the… — Eckhart Tolle

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