Thoughts Quotes

“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
― Napoleon Hill

“...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.”
― Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold

“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator

“Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

“Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I take showers to think.”
― J.R. Rim

“Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.”
― Napoleon Hill

“If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”
― Walter de la Mare, The Return

“Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.”
― D. Antoinette Foy

“He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“To jump over centuries
In one step is impossible.
Jump too high or far,
You’ll be way too late.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion.
In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“It’s like this: Me: Hey, brain. Let’s think of something cool to say!

Brain: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Me: Okay, it doesn’t have to be cool. Just something semi-coherent . . .

Brain: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Me: COME ON, BRAIN, GIVE ME SOMETHING.

Brain: white noise

Shit. Shit. Shit.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”
― Jim Crace, Harvest

“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running on full choke. That there was no sense at all in what he was thinking made not a whit of difference in the dark. In the dark, rationality seemed stupid and logic a dream. In the dark he thought with his skin.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“she drew me. But not who I see in the mirror. Nia saw the Oscar i keep hidden. And she put him on paper.
Nobody sees the real me.”
― Pam Bachorz, Candor

“Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.

Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.

The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“How heavy my mind is,
filled with the past.
Is there enough room
for the world to penetrate?
It must go somewhere,
it cannot simply sit on the surface--

Stars gleaming over the water.
The leaves piled, waiting to be lit.

Insight, my sister said.
Now it is here.
But hard to see in the darkness.

You must find your footing
before you put your weight on it.”
― Louise Gluck, Winter Recipes from the Collective

“Kusha digs through her chain of thoughts, looking blankly at the air. Soon, her mind reaches the source thought like a train reaching its destination.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.”
― Denis Johnson, The Name of the World