Quotes About Immobility

It crackled like an inferno; it danced as only supernatural beings know how to dance, its body proliferating around its immobility; it swayed in a twisting of scarves, so quivering, so bronze, so indefatigably remolded by the euphoria of its body that you could no longer tell if it was anchored by the clinging of its prodigious roots or by the meticulous speed of the tip of the spinning top on which the gods take their rest.

This silk tassel tree has grown up from his spine, the indigenous plants have flourished and died here around his ankles, the fox, sparrows and meadowlarks have nested in his hair, the rains and wind and sun have beaten down across the rigid expanse of his shoulders, and Luca has never moved. We are rocks.

Do flies trapped in amber scream?

She is not a girl. She is a block of stone. She is a piece of wall. She is something against which other things impact without her permission or understanding.

Comment pourrais-tu aimer quelq'un avec le plâtre qui t'immobilise le coeur? On t'a imposé trop de calculs pour que tu puisses aimer. Si tu aimes quelqu'un, c'est qu'on t'a mal éduqué.

Quando un popolo rifiuta un progresso facile da raggiungere, quando un veicolo, spinto da dieci uomini, rimane inchiodato sul posto, quando un bambino si abbruttisce davanti al televisore per ore e ore, quando un'idea si cui è stata dimostrata l'inutilità continua a nuocere, allora si scopre, con stupore, lo spaventoso potere dell'immobile.

Everyone froze. In real time the whole sequence had probably taken ten seconds. In the slow motion of crisis time it had unreeled in ponderous elegance, and the crystalline immobility that followed was intensified by the lingering smell of gunfire, like an olfactory echo of the big bang.

Some wrong eternity that wouldn't budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was.

My pupils are stabbed into my head like black thumbtacks pinning my entire face in place.

On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance

The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.

Bâtis ton film sur du blanc, sur le silence et l'immobilité.

could put no weight on the wounded ankle at

Ma una decisione bisognava pur prenderla, e ciò gli dispiaceva. Egli avrebbe preferito continuare l'attesa, rimanere assolutamente immobile, quasi a provocare il destino affinché si scatenasse davvero.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Amanda meant to move, but somehow her feet didn't do anything. They were like Quebec, determined to be independent.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ('this-has-been'), the photograph suggests that it is already dead.

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

Semplicemente, senza che un solo angolo del suo volto si muovesse, e assolutamente in silenzio, iniziò a piangere, in quel modo che è un modo bellissimo, un segreto di pochi, piangono solo con gli occhi, come bicchieri pieni fino all'orlo di tristezza, e impassibili mentre quella goccia di troppo alla fine li vince e scivola giù dai bordi, seguita poi da mille altre, e immobili se ne stanno lì mentre gli cola addosso la loro minuta disfatta.

Un conto è non far niente. Un conto è non poter far niente-

She touched his hand, and he went stock-still. She leaned over to examine it, the top of her head brushing beneath his nose. Only his sudden immobility stopped him from violently pulling away. "From the candles?" Had she bathed in bloody honey?

Old Marcus still managed to function with disquieting resilience. Some never-atrophying instinct warned hi of danger, of gangings up against him--he was never so dangerous himself as when others considered him surrounded. His grey face had attained such immobility that even those who were accustomed to watch the reflex of the inner corner of his eye could no longer see it. Nature had grown a little white whisker there to conceal it; his armor was complete.