Quotes About Spiritless

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

heart. As he looked around at the agency Indians, dependent, destitute, spiritless, it was clearer than ever that an agency offered no life to him and no prospect for the return of Hawk. The people might be able to live here, he didn't know. Hawk would never come to him here, and he would die. And until his death, live gutted of spirit. He walked his pony and felt in its hooves the pulse of the drum, tapping the earth.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

The apartment was now a ghost:

AMORT  (AMO'RT)   adv.[à la mort, Fr.]In the state of the dead; dejected; depressed; spiritless. How fares my Kate? what, sweeting, all amort?Shakespeare'sTaming of the Shrew.

When by me in the dusk my child sits down I am myself. Simon, if it's that loose, let me wiggle it out. You'll get a bigger one there, & bite. How they loft, how their sizes delight and grate. The proportioned, spiritless poems accumulate. And they publish them away in brutish London, for a hollow crown.

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

Then there are the sort that are just dead inside. Dead. And they know it.

A pain was gnawing in my chest. I pressed my hands to it, the hollows and hard bones. I sat before my loom and felt at last like the creature Medea had named me: old and abandoned and alone, spiritless and gray as the rocks themselves.

Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and with little regard for the people they were expected to serve. Weber famously warned that those who allow themselves to be guided by rules will soon find that those rules have defined their identities and commitments.