Mechanical Life Quotes

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. — Leonardo Da Vinci

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still — D.H. Lawrence

The process of mind is mechanical, and the data of the thoughts and imagination can be changed, by changing the experiences and impressions of life. — Roshan Sharma

Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins. — Belsebuub

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. — John Muir

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me. — Barbara Kingsolver

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway,

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely. — August Krogh

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine. — Douglas Coupland

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. — William Hazlitt

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. — Herbert Read

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. — Friedrich Schiller

I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life. — Dennis Washington