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Quotes About Lifeless

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.
~ Graham Greene
ojos de viejo al que se le han muerto los sentimientos».
~ Graham Greene
With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
~ Mary Shelley
With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
~ Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
recognition. The trial, the presence of the magistrate and witnesses, passed like a dream from my memory, when I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
inert and seemingly lifeless.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
The clearing fell silent. Blood glistened on the grass as cold sunlight sliced through the trees. Cloudtail struggled to his paws and staggered over to stand beside Firestar, looking down at Scourge's lifeless black body.
~ Erin Hunter
Only a miracle can save us from such whirlpools. This miracle has happened, even countless times, when a man stepped out of the lifeless numbers to extend a helping hand to others.
~ Ernst Junger
There was no sound anywhere. No twitter of wakening birds in the gum trees, no bleat from the sandy paddocks, no low of far-off cattle. Silence - the frightful silence of Drought that has killed all life and now broods over the place aghast at her own handiwork.
~ Ethel Turner
No hay palabras que sean como el agua destilada, insustanciales, ajenas a la vida y al mundo.
~ Bernardo Atxaga
Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams.
~ Gustave Flaubert
nascent, lifeless earth out of cosmic space—their
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Peck Valley would have shuddered a bit had it known the easy ethics of its mortuary artist in such debatable matters as the ownership of costly "laying-out" apparel invisible beneath the casket's lid, and the degree of dignity to be maintained in posing and adapting the unseen members of lifeless tenants to containers not always calculated with sublimest accuracy. Most distinctly Birch was lax, insensitive, and professionally undesirable;
~ H.P. Lovecraft
To yield to the mere process of disintegration has become an irresistible temptation, not only because it has assumed the spurious grandeur of "historical necessity," but also because everything outside it has begun to appear lifeless, bloodless, meaningless, and unreal. The
~ Hannah Arendt
She's a gray woman with gray sayings." "A crape-hanger.
~ Benedict Freedman
But history is perhaps an even better antidote to anarchic individualism as well as to a lifeless traditionalism
~ Bertrand Russell
When you begin to feel lifeless in Him, look for the tourniquet that's cutting off the life flow. Most often we'll find it in earthly ties that are cinched too tightly.
~ Beth Moore
When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.
~ Tori Amos
And actually, even normal temperature is pretty good at keeping microbes in check. Just look at how swiftly they swarm in and devour you when you die. That's because your lifeless body falls to a delicious come and get it temperature, like pie left to cool on a windowsill.
~ Bill Bryson
This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised
~ T.S. Eliot
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
~ Juliette Binoche
History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
~ Frederic Harrison
Giving her ten thousand Lifeless is enough to make even me consider my drunk-monkey theory." "The one who chooses names and titles of the Returned?" "Exactly," Lightsong said. "I've actually considered expanding the theory. I am now proposing to believe that God-or the universe, or time, or whatever you think controls all of this-is all really just a drunk monkey.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Seeking, knowing, discovering, enjoying- these faculties or powers are pale and lifeless without realization.
~ Henry Miller