Quotes About Immobility

Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these travelers could have been stone figures quarried from the architecture of an older time.

She did not know why she could not move. It was as in a dream when the heart strains and the body cannot stir.

Sure he's dead, and it's a good thing for us. It's hard to argue with a dead man. A dead man can't change his mind or make new rules, or behave like a bastard so no one will listen to him anymore. A dead man stays a saint.

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

Stones don't walk.They're so perfect they've nowhere to go.

They were stuck in a traffic queue. There was nowhere they could go. They couldn't help but see the melting man.

Nosotros, los perecederos, tocamos los metales, el viento, las orillas del oceano, las piedras, sabiendo que seguiran, inmoviles o ardientes, y yo fui descubriendo, nombrando todas las cosas: fue mi destino amar y despedirme.

In sabikalpa samadhi the devotee has attained realization of his oneness with Spirit but cannot maintain his cosmic consciousness except in the immobile trance state. By continuous meditation he reaches the superior state of nirbikalpa samadhii , in which he may move freely in the world without any loss of God-perception. pg416, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar

But mostly they just sat there, cemented in place by their secretions of chatter.

Her four pupils bored into his, her white face perfectly immobile. "Altruism? What's happening to you?" "I don't know," he said.

Much has been written about Arjun's grief at this eleventh hour and what Krishna said in response to shake him out of immobility.

Seduto su un macigno eroso dai venti, dal sole e dalle piogge degli uragani, Carter ne contemplò la cresta denudata, dorata dalla luce del tramonto. Grazie a Tutankhamon, quel regno del nulla si era trasformato in speranza: in esso, tutto restava immobile e immutabile, perché su quella terra degli dei nulla era cominciato nel tempo e nulla nel tempo sarebbe finito.

She is so white-hot furious she can barely see. She stokes the fire of her hatred, feeding it tidbits about bigoted Dina and spineless mushmouth Ralph, because she knows that just beyond the rage is a sorrow so enervating it could render her immobile. She needs to keep moving, flickering around the room. She needs o fill her bags and get the hell out of here.

All the best gods are made of stone and say nothing.

Il fatto è che i cretini, e ancor più i fanatici, son tanti; godono di una così buona salute non mentale che permette loro di passare da un fanatismo all'altro con perfetta coerenza, sostanzialmente restando immobili nell'eterno fascismo italico.

Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.

Speed is simply the rite that initiates us into emptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry.

But against the acceleration of networks and circuits, we will also look for slowness—not the nostalgic slowness of the mind, but insoluble immobility, the slower than slow: inertia and silence, inertia insoluble by effort, silence insoluble by dialogue. There is a secret here too.

Vi a Antoinette tendida en cama, absolutamente inmóvil. Como una muñeca. Incluso cuando me amenazó con la botella, había en ella cierta calidad de marioneta.

Lee should leave, having just surrendered to Grant inside; but he's immobile. Some of the officers of both sides look at Lee, some can't bear it. Lee tries out various expressions: pride, defiance, blankness.

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched, but I can't move. I don't want to leave, because I don't know where to go

He recognized that he was feeling something he head never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever.

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.