Inanimate Quotes: top 81 famous quotes about Inanimate

Inanimate Quotes & Sayings

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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands. — Donald L. Hicks

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life. — Susan Hill

When we say disparaging things, even about inanimate objects, they can stick, so use discernment as to what you put out to the universe. — Russell Eric Dobda

Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously. — Fanny Fern

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. — Mike Mills

There's nothing so ill advised as attributing a metonymic value to inanimate objects. — Valeria Luiselli

We must treat all objects, animate and inanimate, with respect and honor. — Russell Eric Dobda

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories
those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost — Russell Baker

There is no such thing as inanimate matter ... there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy. — Jay DeFeo

Maybe when people take their eyes off them, inanimate objects become even more inanimate. — Haruki Murakami

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. — Conor Oberst

It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate. — Kendare Blake

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — William Hazlitt

Only the inanimate can be so alive. — David Mitchell

That lucky fucking inanimate animal. "I want to grow up to be a stuffed crocodile. — Lauren Blakely

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. — Jules Verne

When he did not smile, his face looked inanimate, only his eyes remained alive, active with a cold, brilliant clarity of perception. — Ayn Rand

Never fight an inanimate object. — P. J. O'Rourke

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. — Michael Behe

In my absence, the surveyor had become a kind of frenzied serial killer of the inanimate. — Jeff VanderMeer

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary. — Lauren Willig

The first type of captivity consists in man's dependence on creatures, animate or inanimate, when he loves them without reference to God. — Johannes Tauler

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities. — Matthea Harvey

She? You're not one of those people who name their cars and coffee mugs, are you? It's an inanimate object. Get over it. — Susan Ee

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. — Russell Baker

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things. — Walter Lippmann

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move. — Lodovico Dolce

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. — Lord Byron

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. — Dejan Stojanovic

I love bringing the inanimate object to life. — John Lasseter

My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right. — Michael Marshall Smith

I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right? — Carrie Jones

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate. — Bruce Sterling

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things. — Mary Webb

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring — Nelly Furtado

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life. — Mitt Romney

Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. — John Dewey

People often found themselves assenting to inanimate objects in the Moonlite All-Nite. — Joseph Fink

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things. — L.M. Montgomery

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object. — Darren Criss

When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. — Mary Shelley

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates. — Victor Hugo

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects ... and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity. — Isaac Asimov

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. — Michael Polanyi

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. — Philip Treacy

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?' — Tino Sehgal

Things inanimate have always been more difficult to change than things animate. Their souls are older and stupider and harder to persuade. — Neil Gaiman

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources. — Henry David Thoreau

We are all collateral damage for someone's beautiful
Ideology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. — Peter Benchley

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells

It is thus that inanimate objects seem to soak up the essence of living things, and later cause pain or pleasure when we merely look at them. — Margaret George

None of us have a real name, Leonidas, just names we like and names people give us. — Kendra L. Saunders

The process by which the inanimate becomes animate seems to the audience to be a real miracle. — Sergei Obraztsov

While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy. — William Butler Yeats

To Nick's mind, a corpse was just a thing, no different than a chair or typewriter or a rug. A corpse was just an inanimate thing which filled space. — Stephen King

Come on sweetheart, wet your whistle, my little inanimate hussy." ~Steve — Lucian Bane

Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people. — Barbara Pym

We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all. — Frederick Lenz

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. — William Shenstone

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable. — William Bailey

Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment. — Reginald H. Garrett

I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects. — Josef Sudek

Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect. — Kamand Kojouri

There's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it. — Josephine Pinckney

I could not help but notice that in this regard the book, inanimate though it was, cared more for my welfare than any human in the castle. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was. — Lorrie Moore

our ancestors have told stories of war, love, mysteries, and the miraculous performances of lower animals and inanimate objects. — Lemuel Arthur Pittenger

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. — Loren Eiseley

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. — Cassandra Clare

It's wrong for kids to be angry about something inanimate. — Michael Laws

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. — Frederick Lenz

There are no inanimate objects ... — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns. — Anton Chekhov

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. — Philip K. Dick

Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things. — China Mieville