Quotes about lifeless (16 Quotes)

And perish on the Day
Himself is borne away
From Mansion of the Universe
A lifeless Deity.

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

I got the baby and I put him in my arms and he was just lifeless. The only thing he kept saying was mamma, mamma.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

I said, 'Where's the baby' He wouldn't answer me. I went in my room, which has a crib, picked him up and he was lifeless.

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

Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel.

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. 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 burnt 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.

Ahimsa infinite love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the summum bonum of life. It is an attitude of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the reach of a coward. It is no wooden or lifeless dogma but a living and lifegiving force. It is the special attribute of the soul.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

How many thorns of human nature hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.

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