Life Quote by Lorrie Moore

“It is not dying but deadness we should fear.”

— Robert Ellsberg

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like…

— D. H. Lawrence

Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely…

— Frederick Lenz

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is…

— Tom Rachman

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

— Shakti Gawain

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

— Anonymous

“There was a strong sense of being alone, in wintry deadness. Nothing made sense in any direction.”

— Donna Tartt

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

— Lena Headey

I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were…

— Susanna Kaysen

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel. When people first fall in…

— Shakti Gawain

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself…

— Blaise Pascal

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

— John Green