Quotes About Lifeless

The Moon is a dead rock—eighty-one quintillion tons

It gave me no hope to see him doing these simple things with the sluggishness of a somnambulist. It proved nothing more than that he could go like this forever, our silent accomplice, little more than a resuscitated corpse.

He came towards Maharet, staring intently at her, at her smooth face which now bore no trace whatever of human life, the florid human eyes seemingly set within a sculpture.

Lifeless corpses

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

feeling for a pulse. There was none.

Sir Humphrey's stories about Africa made Charity feel exactly like one of his stuffed trophy heads -- lifeless and glassy eyed. The only difference was that she usually ended up face-down, slumbering on the sofa, instead of hung up on the wall.

Rabbi Scnhuer Zalman said it clearly when he wrote: "A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart." In the middle of the mystery of pain, I harvested this precious jewel. I also harvested the love and beauty right here, in this world.

Devoid of life, it was also devoid of the Dead.

DON'T MIND ME, I'M JUST DEAD!

The mouth was not so much cruel as lifeless; thin, rubbery and the color of veal.

dull and repetitive lifestyle.

The dead clay makes no protest.

It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It's an illusion I've noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk. Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive?

Looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.

Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.

Bernatha had a clockwork heart, but that heart did not run.

Like something out of a boring old novel.

Idolatry' is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something other than the one true God. It is the tragically pathetic attempt to squeeze life out of lifeless forms that cannot help us meet our real needs.

bolted down his blood and gorged on him in lumps, leaving the body utterly lifeless, eaten up...

Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

again. It had gotten colder, but no better.