Quotes about Thoughts

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

The mind is a garden, said he.

fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.

so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again...

My head is a hive of words that won't settle.

How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?

Queer, I mused, to see what we were thinking five years ago.

Swelling, perpetually augmented, there is a vast accumulation of unrecorded matter in my head.

Still, there's no harm in putting a full stop to one's disagreeable thoughts by looking at a mark on the wall... Here is something definite, something real. thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is proof of some existence other than ours.

Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing fireworks inside him.