Quotes About Immobility

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

Did you know that you can live on Ensure for a year? A person can live for a really long time just lying in bed and drinking Ensure - way longer than you think.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

New York cold gets into your bones, and you can't move.

MUSIC: Take me by the hand; it's so easy for you, Angel, for you are the road even while being immobile. You see, I'm scared no one here will look for me again; I couldn't make use of whatever was given, so they abandoned me. At first the solitude charmed me like a prelude, but so much music wounded me.

So still and silent that they clash with the crowd in their very immobility; standing noisy in their silence; harsh as a cry of terror in their quietness.

I'm stuck!" Dad yelled. "My big fat tubby body is stuck!

What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed—caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who

I reflected how absurd it was for me to be buried in my coat collar despite the stifling heat, unable to make the slightest physical movement, like an insect playing dead.

The snake…had reached out intentionally to this thing and put it in its stomach, rendering itself immobile. Akane was gripped by an ominous feeling. What if the snake symbolized her own future? What then?

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

La vida avanzaba para los demás, mientras que a mí siempre me dejaba de lado, yo permanecía bloqueado en la edad de las cosas inmóviles. Mi vida sexual se parecía a una película sueca. A veces sin subtítulos incluso.

All efforts of the colonialist are directed toward maintaining thsi social immobility, and racism is the surest weapon this aim. Racism appears then, not as an accidental detail but a subconsubstantial part of colonialism.

Censo Las autoridades del imperio desean que nadie se mueva demasiado. El hombre que recorre mucha distancia es insurrecto y conspirador. La sujeción requiere inmovilidad. El censo también

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still.

Las cosas pueden viajar a cualquier sitio; para ello, no hay más que permanecer inmóvil.

Kaikki neljä pysyivät jonkin aikaa liikkumatta, kun myrsky yltyi, ja salaman leimahdus valaisi heidän suojansa. Pitkän miehen ja vanhan naisen merkillisen jähmeä asento tuntui loitsivan Axlin ja Beatricen, ja molemmat olivat vaiti aloillaan. Oli melkein kuin he olisivat itse törmänneet kuvaan, astuneet sen sisään ja muuttuneet itsekin maalatuiksi hahmoiksi.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

Each leaf had shuddered in the wind on any given yesterday. Each cloud drifting overhead had blown across those skies the year before. Nothing had changed, and nothing could change. The world felt frozen in front of me, like a family photo trapped in a frame. This landscape had imprisoned me since I was born.

Held a 'prisoner perforce inactive when a fierce activity consumes the world', Nehru found the present had acquired the 'immobility and unchangeableness' of the past. Still, sequestered from the world, he felt 'the domination of the present'— or to use a more current phrase, the urgency of now pressed in on him. Denied the freedom to act in this present, he turned to the past and made it his instrument for acting on the future.

I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not going anywhere- just like the spider up in the corner, the dust on the sill, and the cat I buried in the backyard. -Jamaica Ritcher.