Involuntary Quotes

83 Involuntary quotes by 74 unique authors

No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone… — Chris Kraus
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 or… — Ambrose Bierce
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary. — Theodor Adorno
All emotion is involuntary when genuine. — Mark Twain
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by… — Jason Silva
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. — C.S. Lewis
Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs… — Jim Keith
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more… — Ambrose Bierce
And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who moves us, and… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind — Philip K. Dick
Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason. — Robert Burton
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to… — John Cheever
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or… — Hillary Clinton
Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his… — Albert Einstein
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. — Mary Oliver
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling… — Northrop Frye
Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life… — Mildred Blaxter
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an… — Ambrose Bierce
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the… — Jeff Greenfield
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. — John Forbes Nash
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal

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