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Quotes About Mind

Folly, error, sin, avarice Occupy our minds and labor our bodies, And we feed our pleasant remorse As beggars nourish their vermin.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Free man, you will always cherish the sea! The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul In the infinite unrolling of its billows; Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter.
~ Charles Baudelaire
To Heav'n, where his eye sees a radiant throne, Piously, the Poet, serene, raises his arms, And the dazzling brightness of his illumined mind Hides from his sight the raging mob: 
~ Charles Baudelaire
Il caos intero piombò in quell'intelligenza (tout le chaos ruola dans cette intelligence)
~ Charles Baudelaire
whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?
~ Charles Bukowski
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
~ Charles Bukowski
I thought you were sane, I said, but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.
~ Charles Bukowski
peace of mind and heart arrives when we accept what is: having been born into this strange life we must accept the wasted gamble of our days and take some satisfaction in the pleasure of leaving it all behind.
~ Charles Bukowski
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind
~ Charles Bukowski
one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.
~ Charles Bukowski
And then along came Hemingway. What a thrill! He knew how to lay down a line. It was a joy. Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
~ Charles Bukowski
Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
~ Charles Bukowski
I've seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must speak diamonds every time they open their mouths. I get tired of battling for each space of air for the mind. That's why I stayed away from people for so long, and now that I am meeting people, I find that I must return to my cave.
~ Charles Bukowski
it's almost entirely waste. regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. the mind barks like a dog.
~ Charles Bukowski
why it's so hard to go crazy— if you're not already crazy
~ Charles Bukowski
who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.
~ Charles Bukowski
The area dividing the brain and the soul Is affected in many ways by experience — Some lose all mind and become soul: insane. Some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. Some lose both and become: accepted.
~ Charles Bukowski
Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted.
~ Charles Bukowski
I get very tired of the precious intellects who must speak diamonds every time they open their mouths. I get tired of battling for each space of air for the mind. that's why I stayed away from people for so long, and now that I am meeting people, I find that I must return to my cave. there are other things beside the mind: there are insects and palm trees and pepper shakers, and I'll have a pepper-shaker in my cave, so laugh.
~ Charles Bukowski
He visto últimamente demasiados intelectuales. Estoy harto ya de esos genios insignes que tienen que soltar diamantes cada vez que abren la boca. Estoy harto de luchar por cada espacio de aire libre para la mente. Por eso estuve apartado de todos tanto tiempo, y ahora, al volver a ver a la gente, descubro que debo volver a mi cueva, hay otras cosas además de la mente: hay insectos, y palmeras y pimenteros de mesa, y yo tendré un pimentero de mesa en mi cueva, para reírme.
~ Charles Bukowski
are you paranoid?" he asks. "of course. what sane man is not?
~ Charles Bukowski
No estoy loco, pero tampoco estoy cuerdo.
~ Charles Bukowski
Examinar la propia mente es lo peor que puede hacer un loco.
~ Charles Bukowski
kimi beynini yitirip ruha dönüÅŸür: deli. kimi ruhunu yitirip beyne dönüÅŸür: entelektüel. kimi ikisini de yitirir ve kabul görür.
~ Charles Bukowski