All beginnings are involuntary.

And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the…

— Fernando Pessoa

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself…

— Anonymous

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

“Fortunately, most of our vital physiological functions are involuntary, as some amongst us would forget them.”

— Stewart Stafford

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable…

— Vaclav Havel

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

— Blaise Pascal

Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time…

— William Hazlitt

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate…

— Ambrose Bierce

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

— Sarah Bernhardt

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or…

— Jack Kerouac

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

— Paul Bowles

“Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.”

— Bryant McGill

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us…

— Dennis Miller