Quotes About Thoughts

forces you to make choices and brings clarity and order to your ideas.

was recalling her

Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define.

The existence of laws for the association of ideas, as for all intellectual operations, insults our native indiscipline.

The moon is high up in the sky and it's spring. I think of you and within myself I'm complete. A light breeze comes to me from across the hazy fields. I think of you and whisper your name. I'm not I: I'm happy.

But the horror that's destroying me today is less noble and more corrosive. It's a longing to be free of wanting to have thoughts, a desire to never have been anything, a conscious despair in every cell of my soul's body. It's the sudden feeling of being imprisoned in an infinite cell. Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything?

The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define.

The nobleman thinks clearly, writes clearly, and controls his emotions, though not his feelings; the bookkeeper controls neither emotions nor feelings, and what he thinks depends on what he feels.

that most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts.

De tanto lidar com sombras, eu mesmo me converti numa sombra - no que penso, no que sinto, no que sou.

E eu que só oiço o ruído calado do sangue que há na minha vida dos dois lados da cabeça.

Durmo e desdurmo.

For me, life is a somnolence that does not affect the brain. I keep that free as a place in which to be sad.

O Universo não é uma ideia minha. A minha ideia do Universo é que é uma ideia minha. A noite não anoitece pelos meus olhos. A minha ideia da noite é que anoitece por meus olhos. Fora de eu pensar e de haver quaisquer pensamentos A noite anoitece concretamente E o fulgor das estrelas existe como se tivesse peso.   Assim

pude enfim, eu que não dormira, erguer lentamente o corpo exausto de nada da cama de onde pensara o universo

E, por fim, tenho sono, porque, não sei porquê, acho que o sentido é dormir.

Fernando Pessoa

Since life is essentially a mental state and everything that we do or think is only as valuable as we think it is, it depends on us for any value it may have.

Son mis Confesiones, y si en ellas nada digo, es que nada tengo que decir.

I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.

Tenho pensamentos que, se conseguisse realizá-los e torná-los vivos, acrescentariam uma nova luz às estrelas, uma nova beleza ao mundo e um maior amor ao coração dos homens.

Dias são dias, e noites São noites e não dormi... Os dias a não te ver As noites pensando em ti.