“Like storytelling, that incessant loving rush of explaining and repositioning and telling again, all for the sake of finding something shared, something mutually recognized…

Leah Hager Cohen

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or…

Leah Hager Cohen

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our…

Leah Hager Cohen

“That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would…

Leah Hager Cohen

Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest…

Leah Hager Cohen

“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity…

Leah Hager Cohen

Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a…

Leah Hager Cohen

“Brant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooning them on the forlorn island…

Leah Hager Cohen

Explore all 38 Leah Hager Cohen quotes

More Involuntary quotes

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

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

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

Bryant McGill

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

Paul Bowles

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

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

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

Stewart Stafford

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