Top 151 Involuntary Quotes & Sayings

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

The unifying factor in my career across investing and entrepreneurship was that the whole time I've basically been an involuntary power user of legal services.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

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.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't forcing them to laugh - it's involuntary, and that's when they give the most honest response.

Most real relationships are involuntary.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

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.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

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.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.

I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

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.

I'll never forget during the 'Descendants' parade at Disneyland when I waved at a girl with bright blue hair and witnessed her dream being realized and the involuntary tears that followed.

Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.

All beginnings are involuntary.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.