Passivity Quotes

“It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.”

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”

“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”

“Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.”

“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening, not anything but waiting for something to happen.”

“We're more spectators than actors in the drama of our own lives.”

“What is the spectacle? It is the sun that never sets on the empire of modern passivity.”