Lifeless Quote by Ovid

I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“…with the morbid realisation that his sexual being was a dull thing, a lifeless thing, a mass-produced marionette with chipped paint and fraying strings”

— Will Self

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…

— Ovid

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

— Cyprian

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

— Ovid

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

— Ovid

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

— Ovid

“...lifeless and shockingly alien in that place where dissolution itself was a seething turmoil of ejaculation tumescence conception and birth, and death did not…

— William Faulkner

... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he…

— Saint Augustine

“The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were…

— Steve Hockensmith

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

— Gilbert Highet

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King