Torpid Quotes

11 quotes by 10 authors

I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep,… — Dalai Lama
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form.… — Henry Ward Beecher
Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover… — Anko Itosu
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty… — Dalai Lama
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain… — Henry David Thoreau
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. — Virginia Woolf
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. — Mark Twain
The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks… — Carl Schmitt
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age. — Samuel Johnson

Who Wrote These Torpid Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 11 Torpid Quotes as follows: