All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.
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.
And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who moves us, and sometimes it is the last person we should fall in love with. Our involuntary choice is not always the right one, and sometimes it is actually the worst one, hence our suffering. And then, of course, there is the completely different situation of the loving people where, over the years, the love they once felt for each other fades and they can't go on. They feel their love dying, but are unable to bring it back to life.
All beginnings are involuntary.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Pure memory isn't based on recall but rather involuntary memory that's in your body and your nerves.
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition.
Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.
Most real relationships are involuntary.
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
Wonder is involuntary praise.
