Immobility Quotes

25 quotes by 22 authors

The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility. — Dorothea Brande
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility… — Louis Bernacchi
Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully,… — Oriah Dreamer
There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des… — Julio Cortazar
I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever… — Dziga Vertov
When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage. — Peter A. Levine
Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility… — J. G. Ballard
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting… — Christopher Hitchens
To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too… — Rebecca West
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite… — John Burroughs
In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Stability is not immobility. — Klemens von Metternich
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing… — Henry Miller
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. — Maria Montessori
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. — Yann Martel
If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then… — Yann Martel
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets… — Sri Aurobindo
Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and… — Marcel Proust

Who Wrote These Immobility Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 25 Immobility Quotes as follows: