Immobility Quotes

“Önceden düşünülmüş bir hareket değil bu, bir hareket de değil zaten, bir hareket yokluğu, yapmadığın bir hareket,yapmaktan kaçındığın hareketler.”
― Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

“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.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

“If you have not resolved your grief, it will affect your future relationships including the one you have with yourself. Including the one you have with me. It will keep us all in a holding pattern, putting a straightjacket on your love and chaining you to the past instead of moving you forward into the future.”
― Kate McGahan, Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

“You are alone. You learn how to walk like a man alone. To stroll, to dawdle. To see without looking, to look without seeing. You learn the art of transparency, immobility, inexistence.You learn how to be a shadow and how to look at men as if they were stones.”
― Georges Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep

“It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.”
― Wei wu wei

“Immobility results when people end up trapped by the social circumstances into which they are born: the networks in which they are embedded fail to provide them with the information and opportunities that they need to succeed.”
― Matthew O. Jackson, The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors

“[...] come se provasse tanto timore da preferire la paralisi assoluta di tutte le cose e rimanere almeno nello stato e nella posizione che le permettessero di continuare a vivere anziché osare una variazione, sia pure minima, che avrebbe potuto compromettere la sua momentanea stabilità del tutto precaria - la sua calma ormai temibile - e che le procurava il panico. Questo è ciò che fa il panico ed è ciò che di solito porta alla perdizione quanti lo subiscono: fa credere loro che, immersi nel male o nel pericolo, siano tuttavia in salvo.”
― Javier Marías, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

“Winters here are hard. It is not so much the cold as the long nights, and I tended to sleep early and wake with first light to minimize the hours spent sitting in the darkness in forced immobility, idly tending the fire.”
― Neil Ansell, Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

“Has the world, and not just its people, lost its soul through immobility, laziness, and living a zombified half-life doomscrolling through virtual reality? Is our own ‘intelligence’ becoming more and more artificial as we literally ossify in front of our screens?

If you’re having trouble answering such questions, maybe you should ask Siri.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality