Quotes About Mental

To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture.

you'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit

Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.

He said there were going to be literary parties. I tried to imagine a literary party and was unable to. It was a very abstract effort, like trying to imagine a triangle or a cube. Wearing a suit made me feel even more abstract. I had a mental picture of me inside my suit, inside a party, inside a building, inside San Francisco. I didn't know what I was doing, inside so many things that were unlike me.

I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!

They might spend years tracing some mental formation back to its source.

you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

I was forcing him to think. He wasn't used to having to do anything that complex.

Sometimes you just stayed numb, because anything else was not helpful. Sanity relied on numbness, sometimes.

The nasty voices are always on call.

I've seen so much stuff that I had to purge 90 percent of my childhood memories from my brain in order to make room for passwords and PINs.

A quick mind is worthless unless you can control the emotions with it as well.

I need no distraction, Russell," he said curtly. "I believe I have already told you that a mind which cannot control its body's emotional reactions is no mind worth having.

The desperation to support an untenable position to which one is nonetheless committed has caused centuries of extreme mental gymnastics.

I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the ticker-tape of the mind.

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

Madness, and then illumination.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.