Quotes About Immobility

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

As metáfora são a maneira de nos perdermos nas aparências ou de ficarmos imóveis no mar das aparências. Nesse sentido, uma metáfora é como um salva-vidas. E não se deve esquecer que há salva-vidas que boiam e salva-vidas que vão direto para o fundo. É bom nunca esquecer isso.

Ellen was motionless on the sidewalk

Dantès n'avait point changé de place. Une main de fer semblait l'avoir cloué à l'endroit où la veille il s'était arrêté: seulement son oeil profond se cachait sous une enflure causée par la vapeur humide de ses larmes. Il était immobile et regardait la terre.

She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.

What he felt was something larger than fear, a narcotic terror that numbed him completely, made it impossible to imagine moving.

Erik was always amazed how exhausting it was to sit on your ass and not move.

Your beauty puts me in such grace that I cannot move, like a dead rabbit to a roman hunter. - Anthony "Kubilay" Girit

Observe that for the novelist who has remained Christian, like myself, man is someone creating himself or destroying himself. He is not an immobile being, fixed, cast in a mold once and for all. This is what makes the traditional psychological novel so different from what I did or thought I was doing. The human being as I conceive him in the novel is a being caught up in the drama of human salvation, even if he doesn't know it.

JesteÅ›my mianowicie jak pnie drzew le??ce na Å›niegu. Pozornie spoczywajÄ… lekko na gÅ'adkiej powierzchni i zda siÄ™, ?e mo?na by je przesun?? jednym lekkim pchniÄ™ciem. Nie, nie mo?emy tego uczyni?, gdy? sÄ… mocno przymar?niÄ™te do ziemi. Ale spójrz, i to nawet jest tylko pozorne.

I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.

He] would have cried out in horror if the silence had not pressed like a weight that held him paralyzed.

Su situación, sin duda extraña, es la de un filósofo sin filosofía. Creador de un inagotable teatro de pensamientos, Platón parece estar siempre ligeramente retirado, de modo que es imposible fijarlo, y muy capaz de escapar de todo intento de inmovilizarlo. Sin embargo, tales intentos nunca faltaron. A lo largo de los siglos, nunca se ha dejado de fabricar el «platonismo» ni de combatirlo. Y sin embargo, el platonismo no es algo que podamos encontrar en Platón.

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

I descended into physical and moral immobility, and my body became a plant, a stone, mud, nothing at all…

Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

But I am not free. I am incapable of destruction.

That was what death was like: trapped in a small space with a big weight holding you down for all eternity.

Pero leer es otra forma de embarcarse: lo que pasa y corre es nuestra vida, sobre un texto inmóvil. El

Nothing safer than dead

People froze you in place

Deeply encased in snow, I couldn't move and couldn't see, save what my mind could see if I chose to use it, and wishing to die, I used nothing

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!