Quotes About Immobility

The forest does not change its place, we cannot lie in wait for it and catch it in the act of change. Whenever we look at it, it seems to be motionless. And such also is the immobility to our eyes of the eternally growing, ceaselessly changing history, the life of society moving invisibly in its incessant transformations.

Stavolta lessi il titolo del quadro: Ragazza interrotta mentre suona. Interrotta mentre suona: com'era stata la mia vita, interrotta nella musica dei miei diciassette anni, com'era stata la sua vita, strappata e fissata su tela: un momento reso immobile, per tutti gli altri momenti, qualsiasi cosa fossero o avrebbero potuto essere. Quale vita può guarirne?

I cannot run, I am rooted, and the gorse hurts me With its yellow purses, its spiky armoury. I could not run without having to run forever.

Gri kadife koltuÄŸa yaslan?p gözlerimi kapad?m. S?rça fanusun havas? çevremi sarm??t?, k?m?ldayam?yordum.

Security is a kind of death.

In realtà v'è qualcosa di calmo e di rassicurante nelle prime ore d'oscurità, ma a misura che la notte si fa avanti e che i rumori della terra tacciono, l'ombra e il silenzio prendono subito un carattere differente. Una specie d'immobilità soprannaturale pesa su tutto e non esiste parola più eloquente che quella di orrore per descrivere i momenti che precedono il sorgere dell'alba.»

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

Aunque hiciéramos tantas veces el amor la felicidad tenía que ser otra cosa, algo quizá más triste que esta paz y este placer, un aire como de unicornio o isla, una caída interminable en la inmovilidad.

Demasiado tarde, siempre, porque aunque hiciéramos tantas veces el amor la felicidad tenía que ser otra cosa, algo quizá más triste que esta paz y este placer, un aire como de unicornio o isla, una caída interminable en la inmovilidad.

Demasiado tarde, siempre, porque aunque hiciéramos tantas veces el amor la felicidad tenía que ser otra cosa, algo quizá más triste que esta paz y este placer, un aire como de unicornio o isla, una caída interminable en la inmovilidad. La

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.

El fin de todo esto es trágico: el que hace muy poco se sabía con el poder en las manos, se encuentra de pronto inmóvil en una caja de madera; y los que lo rodean, conscientes de su inutilidad, le queman en un horno.

andava, e se andava era porque a alma, quando a inquietação a invade, exige movimento, não pode ficar no lugar, por quando fica imóvel a dor fica terrível

O futuro não a interessava; desejava a eternidade; a eternidade é o tempo que se deteve, que se imobilizou; o futuro torna a eternidade impossível (...)

But I didn't lose it and run screaming across the yard, although I don't get any points for that considering that my knees had just locked and I couldn't seem to move.

From a stratification perspective, we want to understand both immobility and mobility. For immobility, the issue is how status is inherited across generations. Not inheritance in the sense of offices or titles passing directly from parent

He glued the chair to my ass. Silence. Is it still...attached? I can't get it off.

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.

Fat is a small word which belies its size in the girth of its connotations. Fat implies a certain ungainliness, an inefficiency, a sense of immobility, a lack of industry, an unpleasant, unaesthetic quality; unmotivated, unloved, unnatural, unusual, uninspired, unhappy, unlikely to go places or to fit, under the ground with a heart attack at fifty-five. In short, fat somewhat paradoxically involves the lack of many attributes which, you must concede, are generally held to be good.

There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment...

who remained as fixed in the arm-chair as if she had been melted into it when in a liquid state, and could not now be unstuck...

Because immobility is the key to exploitation, fixed capital, like labor, can also be exploited in the short term. And, since some capital goods can last longer than the average life span of a worker, once a hydroelectric plant has been built, both local taxes and local unions can absorb much of its profits, to the point of making very difficult that someone is ever willing to build another hydroelectric plant in that jurisdiction.

He wrapped me up like a package. I couldn't move an inch. "I thought you were some sort of maniac!" I growled. "I am." "What are you doing here?" "Looking for Jim in your bed." "He isn't here." "I see that.