Immobile Quotes

“She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.”
― C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You

“Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)”
― Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990

“Words are dead, until action brings them life.”
― Anthony Liccione

“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his death-world with its hidden gift of life. But that life was a deeply ambiguous life, a conjurer's trick, a crafty illusion based on an accidental property of the retina, which retained an image for a fraction of a second after the image was no longer present. On this frail fact was erected the entire structure of the cinema, that colossal confidence game. The animated cartoon was a far more honest expression of the cinematic illusion than the so-called realistic film, because the cartoon reveled in its own illusory nature, exulted in the impossible--indeed it claimed the impossible as its own, exalted it as its own highest end, found in impossibility, in the negation of the actual, its profoundest reason for being. The animated cartoon was nothing but the poetry of the impossible--therein lay its exhilaration and its secret melancholy. For this willful violation of the actual, while it was an intoxicating release from the constriction of things, was at the same time nothing but a delusion, an attempt to outwit mortality. As such it was doomed to failure. And yet it was desperately important to smash through the constriction of the actual, to unhinge the universe and let the impossible stream in, because otherwise--well, otherwise the world was nothing but an editorial cartoon.”
― Steven Millhauser, Little Kingdoms

“Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.”
― Kate McGahan

“It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring.”
― Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness

“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.”
― Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari

“Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Io non mi avvicino, odio i manichini. Soprattutto quando le luci delle vetrine sono spente. Sembrano così tristi, loro abbinamenti ricercati, nella posa precisa e immutabile, nella posa migliore. Grazie a quella perfetta posizione delle mani, qualcuno passando si fermerà e dirà caspita che bel vestito, l'ha comprato in questo negozio? sembra carino, quasi quasi lo compro anche io. È un oggetto che esiste solo nella speranza di essere guardato, il manichino, e l'attesa non ha riposo e il presente è fatto di niente, solo una combinazione di colori e di tagli e di stoffe che in futuro cambierà solo in funzione del giudizio della gente.
No, non mi avvicino, brutta compagnia.”
― Guido Tonini, Non è la luce