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Quotes About Involuntary

He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.
~ John Flanagan
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
~ John Forbes Nash Jr.
I have played a mentally challenged person, a quadriplegic - but blind, I realised, is the most difficult because eyes are the most involuntary muscles in our body. Like, our pupils and their dilations are involuntary.
~ Hrithik Roshan
Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, Feel joy. He says, Rejoice! It's a choice.
~ George Foster
Wonder is involuntary praise.
~ Edward Young
Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.
~ Sally Bedell Smith
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
~ Mark Twain
Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.
~ Anthony Trollope
Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.
~ Steven Magee
Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years?
~ John Taylor Gatto
You have to really dislike someone to impose a sentence of involuntary and uncompensated writing on them.
~ Scott Nicholson
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
~ Mark Twain
The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.
~ Jonathan Tropper
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
~ Gregory Maguire
Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
~ Dash Mihok
Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.
~ Stefan Molyneux
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
~ Joseph Joubert
There are some places the mind should not go; it gets steered there anyway.
~ Harlan Coben
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Her whole body sang with a sick gladness that this was any child but hers. It was as immediate and involuntary as her heartbeat, and in her next breath, shame crept in. Not Shelby, thank God, thank God, but this girl was someone's.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
He was no fool; he knew that love existed. But he also believed in the power of the mind, and perhaps even more importantly, the power of the will. Frankly, he saw no reason why love should be an involuntary thing. If he didn't want to fall in love, then by damn, he wasn't going to. It was as simple as that. Ithad to be as simple as that.
~ Julia Quinn
We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.
~ Francois Lelord
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~ Blaise Pascal
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
~ Blaise Pascal