Obsessions Quote by d.h. lawrence

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

— D. H. Lawrence

“The junkie whine had vanished from his voice now, replaced with a resigned flatness, as if the words were being broadcast from a long,…

— Neil Gaiman

“After the dead words, after the ones still said and spoken, what do you expect? Some flying leaves, more scattered papers. Who knows? Some…

— Vicente Aleixandre

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words…

— Henry Miller

“Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?”

— Clive Barker

“Week after week we were reduced to starting the same letter over again and copying out the same appeals, so that after a certain…

— Albert Camus

When all is dead, the words will be read.

— Jeremy Limn

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

— Peter Weiss

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

— Miguel de Unamuno

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living…

— Albert Camus

I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

— Ken Saro-Wiwa

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if…

— Andre Gide