Quotes About Thoughts

My shiny black hair fallen into disarray, a thousand tangles, like a thousand tangled thoughts about my love for you.

It seems that, no matter what is happening to me in my personal life, I am always thinking about my work without even knowing it. This phenomenon resembles some kind of karma.

Perhaps it is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.)

Spinoza dit qu'il ne se peut pas que l'homme n'ait pas de passions, mais que le sage forme en son âme une telle étendue de pensées heureuses que ses passions sont toutes petites à côté.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

A four-year-old may believe that her thoughts also have the power to affect what happens to others, and so she will feel guilty should misfortune befall someone about whom she has had an angry thought.

knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even

when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts."*5

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

The life that I could still live, I should live and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: 'everything.' Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.