Quotes About Mind

I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

Cancer is a bully. It is an elephantine disease of body, mind, soul. My husband moved a half a mile away from it. I would love to do the same. I am stuck until the end.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

I'm a stranger wherever I go because I'm strange to myself. My mind just goes off doing its own thing, never consulting me at all about whether it's all right to feel this way or that.

I was born with a mind that is compromised by preternatural unhappiness, and I might have died very young or done very little. Instead, I made a career out of my emotions.

And the scariest part is that if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, "Gradually and then suddenly." When someone asks how I lost my mind, that is all I can say too.

Where there is no certainty the mind must turn to the light and not the shadow.

Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind, and all others should be blind and deaf.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.

34. "Four species of idols beset the human mind, to which (for distinction's sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of the Market, the fourth Idols of the Theatre.

41. "The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

The spell of these terrible solitudes ... cannot leave any mind untouched, any mind, that is, possessed of the higher imaginative qualities.

Our thoughts make spirals in their world.

We must keep our minds quiet-it's our minds they feel.

They have put it into my mind; try your hardest to prevent their putting it into yours.

The studies that had fascinated his mind in earlier youth returned with the power that had subdued his mind in boyhood.