“All the while, my mind reeled with what had happened.”

“…I've had a bad week."
What's happened?"
Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

“What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

John Wilmot (1748–1815) English politician

“His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

“This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Let me show you what happened while we were all asleep.”

Benjamin H. Freedman (1890–1984) American businessman

“I find that it is very useful to look over the location and to feel out the atmosphere while waiting for the actors. It may happen that the images before my eyes coincide with those I had in my mind, but this is not frequently the case. It more often happens that there is something insincere or artificial about the image one has thought of. Here again is another way of improvising.”

Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter

“There are just lots of possibilities in the world… I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels…. And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist