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Quotes About Lifelessness

Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres
~ Raymond Chandler
Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.
~ Bruno Schulz
With Beijing Memory No. 5, what is uncanny is that the "machine" refuses to come to life, and in its lifelessness, imagines what life might have been. And it is in this very paradox of "might have been" that we experience the prospective and prosthetic quality of our ontology.
~ Anne Anlin Cheng
Lifeless corpses
~ Sharon Lee
Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Incredibly, there are people—smart people—who think a prim disdain for drama is somehow a sign of "good taste." It is more often the reverse: a lamentable insensitivity to the essence of the art, a failure to "get it" on the most essential level. It is more often a sign not of good taste but of artistic insecurity. Not knowing how far to go, the writer goes nowhere. Lifelessness is not a form of elegance you should pursue.
~ Stephen Koch
Lifelessness is the Great Enemy & always wears a hip guard --
~ Bob Dylan
A dead man cannot bite.
~ Pompey
The first of these houses appeared to be occupied. The next two were vacant. Dingy curtains, soot-grey against their snowy window-sills, hung over the next. A litter of paper and refuse-abandoned by the last long gust of wind that must have come whistling round the nearer angle of the house - lay under the broken flight of steps up to a mid-Victorian porch. The small snow clinging to the bricks and to the worn and weathered cement of the wall only added to its gaunt lifelessness. (Bad Company
~ Walter de La Mare
Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.
~ Bob Dylan
Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and animals. They see no life When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and rivers are not alive
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Dullness is the enemy.
~ Philip Johnson