Oscar Wilde

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

Irish Poet

Finneas

I don't particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don't want to be bound to a studio to who we'd have to pay untold sums to.

American Musician

Anne Tyler

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?

American Novelist

Ravish Kumar

A scared journalist produces a lifeless citizen. If our news is scared of the government, it is great injustice to readers and viewers who have been cheated in the name of news.

Ellen Glasgow

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.

Etienne Schneider

Our aim is to open access to a wealth of previously unexplored mineral resources on lifeless rocks hurling through space, without damaging natural habitats.

Luxembourger Politician

Joyce Kilmer

When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.

American Poet

Boris Pasternak

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.

Russian Novelist

Gilbert Highet

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

Scottish Writer

Bodhidharma

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

Indian Leader

Used for objects or scenes devoid of any signs of life, often creating a bleak or stark impression.

Literal Lifelessness

The term may evoke sadness or distress, as it often relates to death or abandonment.

Emotional Impact

When describing nature or environments, it implies an absence of movement or growth without emotion.

Neutral Observer

Describes events or things that lack excitement, suggesting they should be more lively.

Metaphorical Dullness

Often used when there's an expectation of vibrancy or excitement, like in parties or entertainment.

Expectation of Energy

For art or portrayal, it means failing to capture the essence or spirit, making subjects seem unreal.

Lack of Realism

Consider context; 'lifeless' may not mean completely without life, but rather not as lively as expected.

Subtle Nuances

 in which technology no longer compromises separate, lifeless tools from our minds and our bodies, a future in which technology has been carefully integrated within our nature, a world in which what is biological and what is not, what is human and what is not,

How we'll become cyborgs...

 but because the laws of physics themselves forbid it. This is the essential the universe is far, far too interesting. Relativity and quantum mechanics appear to suggest that the universe should be a boring place. It should be dark, lethal and lifeless.

Have we reached the end...

 This was the first time I heard that people in my country were suffering. Soon after, when I was walking past a train station, I saw something terrible that to this day I can't erase from my memory. A lifeless woman was lying on the ground,

Hyeonseo Lee: My escape...

 used to be thought of as souls rather than the body was incidental and the soul was all that mattered there wasn't a soul in sight someone might say of an empty lifeless Street and all souls were lost at sea

The real meaning of soul...

 and you get the chance to save a damsel in distress falling from a helicopter. So, you hold out your arms, hoping to catch her. Seconds later, you will find yourself holding her lifeless body. What happened?

If superpowers were...

 by converting lights into a two-dimensional array of numbers known as pixels, but these are just lifeless numbers. They do not carry meaning in themselves. Just like to hear is not the same as to listen,

How we teach computers...

 Our planet's diverse thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they're actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks,

Why is biodiversity so...

 with their phones and other lifeless objects but what do you think will happen when their owners start showering attention on what appears to be a new best friend say hello to noodles

Jealousy Bites PIPE Brain...

 When you think of natural history museums, you probably picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs meteroites,

The hidden worlds within...

 the deep sea bed may at first appear lifeless but it's home to a unique cast of mud