Agitation Quotes

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?

I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.”
― Tim Fargo

“Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.”
― Eugene V. Debs

“Suicidal pain includes the feeling that one has lost all capacity to effect emotional change. The agony is excruciating and looks as if it will never end. There is the feeling of having been beaten down for a very long time. There are feelings of agitation, emptiness, and incoherence. 'Snap out of it and get on with your life,' sounds like a demand to high jump ten feet.”
― David L. Conroy, Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain

“I find me, leave me, go towards me, come from me, nothing ever but me, a particle of me, retrieved, lost, gone astray, I’m all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge, those that part, those that never meet, and nothing else, yes, something else, that I’m something quite different, a quite different thing, a wordless thing in an empty place, a hard shut dry cold black place, where nothing stirs, nothing speaks, and that I listen, and that I seek, like a caged beast born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born of caged beasts...”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as the great gust of agitation which, now and then, sweeps over the human spirit. For then the creature in whose company we are seeking amusement at the moment, her lot is cast, her fate and ours decided, that is the creature whom we shall henceforward love. It is not necessary that she should have pleased us, up till then, any more, or even as much as others. All that is necessary is that our taste for her should become exclusive. And that condition is fulfilled so soon as - in the moment when she has failed to meet us - for the pleasure which we were on the point of enjoying in her charming company is abruptly substituted an anxious torturing desire, whose object is the creature herself, an irrational, absurd desire, which the laws of civilised society make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage - the insensate, agonising desire to possess her.”
― Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann

“He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

“Suicidal pain includes the feeling that one has lost all capacity to effect emotional change. The agony is excruciating and looks as if it will never end. There is the feeling of having been beaten down for a very long time. There are feelings of agitation, emptiness, and incoherence. "Snap out of it and get on with your life," sounds like a demand to high jump ten feet.”
― David L. Conroy, Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain

“We become tight and constricted in our minds, which can easily lead to agitation and restlessness.”
― Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind

“Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions.
Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“We can learn a lot from young children and infants who are able to shift from agitation to amusement in a moment simply by having their needs met. Once crying newborns get fed, held, or changed, they don’t brood for another hour about how mad they are that it took so long for their caregivers to respond; they shift instantly. Unfortunately, we lose this ability and develop instead a habit of thinking and rationalizing our way through problems.”
― Rob Ryan Sullivan

“Progress is dependent upon a productive and dynamic tension between institutionalism and insurrectionism. Insurrectionists keep our institutions honest. Insurrection us are stewards of our collective public life.”
― Christopher Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

“If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of the mind.”
― Werner Herzog, Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin

“People who live on volcanoes forget all about it; and you'd soon get used to sitting on barrels of gunpowder if you had no armchair.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Mrs Craddock

“Listening out for the sound of [his parent's] return kept him suspended in a semi-permanent state of agitation just like an apparently sleeping cat whose ear radar never rests.”
― Jon Edgell, Drive

“If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“In order for evil to go down, the good had to fight, suffer and die. We won, but only after suffering a lot of pain and I’m sure many have had second thoughts. Despite everything, we had new hope after the battle. We cleared the agitation. We were free. The same goes for this war. The good on both sides needs to survive and the bad needs to wither away.”
― Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core

“The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.”
― Paul Kengor, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism

“I’m worried. My heart is filled with uneasiness, apprehension, agitation.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

“It is a conservation of momentum: what is diminished by time is augmented by the pencil. As the idea fades, the agitation around it has to increase to keep it alive; and as the scope of the architectural profession also reduces, the designer’s visible impact on the object increases, as if to recall lost powers.”
― Robin Evans, The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries

“The shortest, quietest smile is a tiny display of muscle power that can vanquish the mighty agitation of someone's mind.”
― R.N. Prasher

“If I win, you’re to be at my beck and call for the semester. If I need a favor, you have to drop what you’re doing. Within reason, of course. If I want someone to go shopping with, you have to come. If I want a gym buddy or want to go get mani-pedis, you’re who I’m calling to come with me.”

Creed didn’t hide his irritation. “You want a boyfriend.”
― Ashley N. Rostek, Find Me

“Agitation in mind does not change what fate has destined to happen at its pace”
― Udayakumar DS, Life of a Sunset Kid

“Higher knowledge reviews goals and aspirations. It goes to first principles. When one thus starts considering the whole picture, one develops what are known as values. Values refer to what a person deems important, to his understanding of life. When that is adjusted, there is no further grumbling or agitation.”
― Janki Santoke

“Life often smiles at our agitation, knowing that within the chaos lies the seeds of our greatest growth, waiting to bloom...!!”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“I know wholeheartedly that prescribing benzodiazepines again would restore a significant amount of the degeneration and restore the pleasure of life within a mere 20 minutes, despite the potential adverse effects. I can confidently assert that akathisia is the most detrimental condition in existence.”
― Jonathan Harnisch