Quotes About Thoughts

Intentions are deep waters in a human heart

Poi stetterò un bel po' in silenzio, ognuno con i suoi pensieri, sembravano una coppia di quelle che si amano da tantissimo tempo e non hanno più bisogno di parlare.

Non riusciva a trattenersi. Non diceva mai la cosa che avrebbe dovuto dire. Gliene veniva in mente prima un'altra. Un attimo prima. Ma era più che sufficiente.

rimane l'ombra di un sapore che la costringe a pensare acqua di mare, quest'uomo dipinge il mare con il mare.

But now I don't know any story, mine or anyone else's, that did not begin in the animal movement of a body - an inclination, a wound, an obliqueness, at times a brilliant move, often obscene instincts that came from far away. It's all written there already. The thoughts come afterward, and are always a belated map, to which, out of convention and weariness, we attribute some precision.

I often thought about him during the war; if only Novecento were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war', he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.

Estás a punto de desvanecerte, y entonces yo me digo tienes que pensar en algo, tienes que mantenerte aferrada a un pensamiento, si consigo hacerme pequeña en ese pensamiento después todo pasará, sólo hay que resistir, pero lo cierto es que…, eso es de verdad el horror…, lo cierto es que ya no hay pensamientos, en ninguna parte en tu interior, ya no queda ni un pensamiento sino sólo sensaciones.

the Spaniards think, and the French think up.

Dr. Svensson had once counselled him to think of the things you're doing rather than the things you did.

There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds.

He thought that perhaps she had been thinking the same thing, which was unlikely, but a nice thought anyway—that two people who liked one another should think the same thought at the same time.

if you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take—if you thought at all? Of course you thought—she had never had any difficulty with accepting that—but how limited would your thoughts be in the absence of any words to express them?

We don't forget...Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, smells of places, of little things that happened to us and which come back, unexpectedly, to remind us of who we are.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.

Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; and Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very popular at the time, —

Dantes remained confused and silent by this explanation of the thoughts which had unconsciously been working in his mind, or rather soul; for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those from the heart.

Fears and worries originate in the mind. Love and joy originate from the soul.

I have a writer's concentration: intense, but flickering.

ideology refers to belief, or better, to configurations of beliefs. Ideology exists—if it exists—in the mind.

Podríamos llevar «todo en oración» delante de Dios. Podemos orar por todo. Cada persona, objeto, tema, circunstancia, temor, situación: todo en el universo es lo que podemos llevar delante de Dios. Por lo tanto, cada pensamiento que entra en tu mente mientras estás leyendo un pasaje de la Escritura —aun si tal pensamiento no tiene que ver con el texto que está delante de ti en ese momento— es algo que puedes llevar delante de Dios.

While she was still unconscious,