Quotes About Passivity

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don't try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.

A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.

A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.

La paura che nasce dal desiderio] scuote terribilmente ma non causa profonde ferite. Tormenta la nostra anima ma al tempo stesso la alimenta, la rinvigorisce. E' l'azione di una forza misteriosa che conferisce al cuore umano uno stato di passività e gli dona la capacità di elevarsi, per poterlo trascinare in un luogo segreto designato dagli Dei.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

Bad enough, but he was limp and vacant, passive and beyond caring. A walking invitation to the kind of man who doesn't need an invitation, prefers not to be invited.

dharma incluye todo aquello que sustenta la vida de manera natural: la felicidad, la verdad, el deber, la virtud, la admiración, la adoración, la veneración, el aprecio, la pasividad, el amor, el respeto a uno mismo.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

I felt like I was going through the motions of living my lukewarm life with the occasional flare-ups of awesomeness here and there.

La educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues se propone por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión.

You did respond—your response was the worst kind—you did nothing.

My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.

If a pandemic can induce governments to take emergency actions, why can't a climate breakdown that threatens to kill off the very life-support systems of the planet do the same? After this, there can be no more excuses for passivity.

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

Oisive jeunesse À tout asservie, Par délicatesse J'ai perdu ma vie.

Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

Some people, too, are inveterately passive: they are waiting for you to make the bold move, and if you don't, they will think you are weak.

Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

the moment indifference took over, life began to subside. Few men rose out of it: most lost all impulse toward activity and ended by offering death at least a halfhearted welcome.

Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.

He was just a husband and a salaried man. Choice didn't play any part in his life.

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something.

He sits all day on the terrace of the Brokers' Club watching women pass, with the restless eye of someone endlessly shuffling through an old soiled pack of cards.

As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fanhood or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism. Meanwhile, as citizens of the political commonwealth, we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence in which bluster too often substitutes for argument. There