97 Inanimate Quotes
Following is our list of inanimate quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about an inanimate object.
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Famous Inanimate Quotes
Things which do not grow and change are dead things. — Louise Erdrich
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. — John Galt
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion. — Samuel Johnson
All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. — Lao Tzu
There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument — Robert Musil
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. — Alexander Herzen
Absent in body, but present in spirit. — Paul the Apostle
There are living systems; there is no'living matter'. — Jacques Monod
Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept. — Seneca
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. — Epictetus
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath
Like Bitcoin, living things are volatile. Dead things, not so much. — Michael Saylor
Short Inanimate Quotes
- My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object. — Darren Criss
- Never fight an inanimate object. — P. J. O'Rourke
- Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. — Philip K. Dick
- I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. — Philip Treacy
- When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life. — Mitt Romney
- No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. — Michael Polanyi
- The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. — Russell Baker
- The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells
- War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. — Karl von Clausewitz
- I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. — Peter Benchley
The Animate And The Inanimate Quotes
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. — Orison Swett Marden
Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order. — Josef Muller-Brockmann
Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously. — Fanny Fern
It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither. — Charles Dickens
No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies. — Sarada Devi
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material. — Ramakrishna
I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed. — Frances Wright
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. — Frederick Lenz
The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship. — Ed Buckner
I try always to intimate with the world… with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private. — Gabriel Orozco
An Inanimate Object Quotes
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence. — Bryan Kest
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
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. — David Sedaris
I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room. — Hiro Murai
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke. — George Eliot
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
Inanimate Objects Quotes
As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts. — Sakyong Mipham
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
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind. — Ingrid Newkirk
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving. — Mary McGrory
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them. — Edith Wharton
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives. — George Orwell
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. — Cassandra Clare
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. — David Hume
This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can - can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous. — Rebecca Kleefisch
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
People Writing About Inanimate
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Louise Erdrich |
139 | 507 |
 John Galt |
31 | 280 |
 Samuel Johnson |
1736 | 7561 |
 Lao Tzu |
1418 | 11725 |
 Robert Musil |
80 | 328 |
 Alexander Herzen |
47 | 540 |
More Inanimate Quotes
Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind. — Robert Owen
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality. — Joel Salatin
I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't." "There goes my Saturday. — Cassandra Clare
The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home. — Emily Carr
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought. — Bertrand Russell
And I was very successful at baby photography... Strange isn't it? Because some of my portraits of babies were - I used dramatic lighting, shadow lighting, and I didn't use flash. We didn't have flash in those days, we just had floodlights, and I was photographing babies as I would an object - an inanimate object, for that matter. — Julius Shulman
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours. — John Lubbock
K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it. — Ed Viesturs
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring — Nelly Furtado
Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world. — Martin Amis
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life. — Joseph Joubert
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. — Joseph De Maistre
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay? — William Jennings Bryan
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
Encompass with your mercy and compassion all animals and creatures. Do not say, "this is inanimate and has no awareness." Indeed, it does; it is you yourself who have no awareness! So let existence be as it is, and be merciful towards it with the mercifulness of the Creator in the midst of His creation. — Ibn Ata Allah
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life. — Richard Reti
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world. The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil - it's really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries' folklore. — Billy Boyd
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir. — Wallace Stevens
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. — Michael Behe
Matter is capable of infinite subdivision...All matter is in a state of perpetual activity [motion], whether the substance under consideration be inanimate or animated, visible or invisible...There is no dividing of matter and force into two distinct terms, as they both are ONE. FORCE is liberated matter. MATTER is force in bondage. — John Ernst Worrell Keely
What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning. — Arno Hintjens
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment. — Pema Chodron
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