"Insensate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from his breast the hand he had concealed there; it was stained with his blood. He had dug his nails into his flesh, as if in punishment for having nursed so many projects, more vain, insensate, and fleeting than the life of the man himself. Fouquet was horror-stricken, and then his heart smote him with pity. He threw open his arms as if ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... actions constantly taking place—are the instant result of one gasp of life-giving air. No subject can be fraught with greater interest than watching the first spark of life, as it courses with electric speed "through all the gates and alleys" of the soft, insensate body of the infant. The effect of air on the new-born child is as remarkable in its results as it is wonderful in its consequence; but to understand this more intelligibly, it must first be remembered that life consists of the performance of three vital functions—RESPIRATION, ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... bronze nor the insensate stone Must my enduring passion find its goal; Within the living statue I enthrone That essence ...
— The Girl Wanted • Nixon Waterman
... too soundly. I shall tell her how insensate she must have been, how serenely unconscious when the flower came in at ...
— On the Church Steps • Sarah C. Hallowell
... creation, practise the gentlest, the most rapid, and the easiest method of guiding beings to the Goal? Is it not sheer blasphemy to attribute such folly to the Soul of the world? Does not the study of Nature, at each step, belie this insensate waste, of which no human being would be guilty? Everywhere with the minimum of force, Nature produces the maximum of effect; everywhere energy is consolidated with one end in view; and yet, amid the general order around, ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal
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