Eyes open involuntary Ears have no way to cease their job…

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

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

Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

— Dov Davidoff