Dissipation Quotes

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.”
― Laurence Sterne

“Energy has a way of dissipating, you know; what can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.”
― Stephen King, It

“Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that his outbursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. How often have I seen him draw his dark brows together, fix his eyes upon some object on the wall or a figure in the carpet, and then flash into the lamplight the very image that was in his brain.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.”
― Orrin Woodward

“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for that possession, the waste of which is called Dissipation. Unfortunately the excellent word Entropy, which Clausius has introduced in this connexion, is applied by him to the negative of the idea we most naturally wish to express. It would only confuse the student if we were to endeavour to invent another term for our purpose. But the necessity for some such term will be obvious from the beautiful examples which follow. And we take the liberty of using the term Entropy in this altered sense ... The entropy of the universe tends continually to zero.”
― Peter Guthrie Tait, Sketch Of Thermodynamics

“It was the first time I had let go of my inhibitions in aeons. She had the key to the cage of propriety in which I had imprisoned myself. I was introduced to a lifestyle of decadence.”
― Ayshen Irfan, The Fire Within My Heart

“Do not get drunk with wine, which leads to dissipation, but be filled with the holy spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Emil, the oldest of my cousins, with his bright blond moustache and a face that life seemed to have wiped clean of any expression [...]

His face, withered and clouded, seemed day by day to be forgetting itself, turning into an empty white wall covered with a pale network of veins, in which the dwindling memories of a tumultuous and wasted life intertwined like the lines on a faded map... With his eyes wandering over distant memories, he told strange anecdotes, which always broke off abruptly, disintegrating and dissipating into nothingness [...]

His face was the mere breath of a face–a streak that some unkonwn passer-by had left behind in the air.”
― Bruno Schulz, Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories