Petrifaction Quotes
- Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal.… — Eugene Ionesco
- I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange… — Georg Trakl
- For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind,… — Spencer Tracy