Thoughts Quotes

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

~ Paolo Giordano

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...

~ John Geddes

When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.

~ Jocelynn Drake

We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.

~ John Green

...she was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.

~ R.l. Mathewson

Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.

~ Steven Redhead

I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

~ John Green

I thought: We are not close enough. I though: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast.

~ John Green

I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.

~ John Green

I thought: We are not close enough. I thought: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard ans fast.

~ John Green

Far in the back of her mind she was thinking. But she could not dredge up these half-formed feelings, these obscure bits of ideas, into clear, definite thoughts. . . . Her mind ticked away, singing a song she could not decipher.

~ Helen Wells

Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...

~ John Geddes

You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...

~ Mervyn Peake

Mostly, when Jess didn't want to talk about her ideas in class, Colleen thought that Jess was showing off, making sure that she would be coaxed and pleaded with, but how could Jess have explained in a coherent way that she was scared? Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

I’ve got something so lovely to think about that I’d like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.

~ Annie Fellows Johnston

Point of view. I never got that phrase, point of view; doesn’t everyone have a point in their view? If not thenthey don’t have a view on a certain topic they are just indifferent. Anyone who has a view certainly cares enough to have apoint!

~ Cv

Love does whatever it does, whenever it wants to do it.

~ Camile Souza

...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had never known what Herakles was thinking. Once in a while he would say, / Penny for your thoughts! / and it always turned out to be some odd thing like a bumper sticker or a dish / he'd eaten in a Chinese restaurant years ago. / What Geryon was thinking Herakles never asked. In the space between them / developed a dangerous cloud.

~ Anne Carson

A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.

~ Adam P. Knave

I had been brought up to be something of an intellectual, but there seemed at the time no connection between my newly formed ideas and the world to which I had returned. Indeed, I did not even recognize my ideas as ideas at all: they seemed to be culled from somewhere else and did not belong to me. I did not know then what I am just beginning to know now: that my ideas were indeed mine, that I had reacted and changed and moved, that I had already analyzed and synthesized, rejecting some thoughts, adopting others, putting yet others away for a while to be thought on. I did not recognize how mentally active an individual I had become, already divorced from the world through my own thoughts, my own perceptions of right and wrong, of honour and justice, of what mattered and what did not. (2007: 117)

~ Jean Said Makdisi

What you can't comprehend within your thoughts will be impossible to make real within your world.

~ Steven Redhead

I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.

~ J.m. Coetzee

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

~ Upton Sinclair

(Parentheses speakMore than we dare say out loudWhy, oh, why is that?)

~ Megan Mccafferty

A mind is not weighed by its magnitude, but by the dimensions of its thoughts.

~ Anthony Liccione

A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.

~ Nema Al-Araby

Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

~ Mason Cooley

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.

~ Alan Cohen

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

~ Alan Cohen

Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

~ Jeanette Winterson

The most abundant and most precious of things: Thoughts and Dreams, can be found in every corner yet as precious as diamonds.

~ Stridingdream

There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.

~ William Gibson

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.

~ Helen Hodgman

Sometimes I feel that our bright blue sky is like a pregnant women’s belly.

~ Santosh Kalwar