Quotes About Thoughts

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I cannot say forget me—but I would mention that there are impossibilities in the world.

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

Si corre un pericolo non da poco quando si sta troppo vicino al fiume di pensieri di un'altra persona, perchè più forte è la corrente e più è facile caderci dentro e venire trascinati lontano da sè stessi.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

that fear was "an important element to be bred in the civilian population. It is difficult to unite a people by talking only on the highest ethical plane. To fight for an ideal, perhaps, must be coupled with thoughts of self-preservation.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.