Immobility Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.
— Dorothea Brande
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.
— Peter A. Levine
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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
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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
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To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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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
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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
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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
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Stability is not immobility.
— Klemens von Metternich
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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
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
— Maria Montessori
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
— Yann Martel
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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
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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
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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: