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Torpid Quotes

Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid Picture Quote #1

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, but winter lingering chills the lap of May; no zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, but meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest Picture Quote #1

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine Picture Quote #1

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition Picture Quote #1

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise Picture Quote #1

It is man’s own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age Picture Quote #1

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Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul Picture Quote #1

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man’s discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite Picture Quote #1

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Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid (Torpid Quotes) No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, but winter lingering chills the lap of May; no zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, but meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest (Torpid Quotes) The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine (Torpid Quotes) The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition (Torpid Quotes) No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise (Torpid Quotes) It is man’s own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age (Torpid Quotes) Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand (Torpid Quotes) Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul (Torpid Quotes) They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man’s discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself (Torpid Quotes) 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 (Torpid Quotes) The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite. (Torpid Quotes)