Top Involuntary Quotes
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
John Thorn
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt
John Thorn 
W. H. Auden 
Kate Millett 
Sarah Bernhardt 
John Forbes Nash, Jr. 
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal 
60% of people like this quote
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
59% of people like this quote
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
John Thorn
56% of people like this quote
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt
55% of people like this quote
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.
52% of people like this quote
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
Iain Sinclair
51% of people like this quote
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
Kate Millett
50% of people like this quote