Quotes about thinking
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“Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

World

“A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.”

Dan Chaon book Stay Awake

Source: Stay Awake

“Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.
"I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”

Frank Herbert book Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

Secret, Way

“Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“We are coming up on the Sumerian apokalypsi–. (Artemis)
I don’t think they use that word. (Kat)
Who cares what word they use? End of the world is end of the world regardless of whatever term you use for it! (Artemis)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

World

“I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Alec Lightwood and Jace Herondale, pg. 438
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: "'Sure, he likes you,' said Alec. 'You're heterosexual and have low expectations of father figures.'
'I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. "He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations."'"

“For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.”

Jim Al-Khalili (1962) British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster

World, Understanding, Universe, Science

“I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Source: Fear of Flying

Books, Cry

“I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Home, Tree, Memory

“My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”

Francesca Lia Block book Witch Baby

Source: Witch Baby

Pain, Beauty, Imagination, Flowers

“I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Funny

“Or is it that I think too much?”

Steve Martin book The Pleasure of My Company

Source: The Pleasure of My Company

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Pain

“And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

Love

“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

John Irving book The World According to Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

Reading

“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Pain

“People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.”

Diane Setterfield (1964) English novelist

People

“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

God, Country, Forgetting

“Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.”

C. Terry Warner American writer

Source: Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves

Truth, Reality, Learning

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“DOES EVERYBODY THINK I am an asshole?” Curran asked. “Only people who know you or have met you.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Shifts

People

“It's truly weird how everyone just thinks they can bring me Diet Coke and everything will be okay. Especially since it's pretty much true.-Lizzie Nichols”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

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Source: The Christmas Sweater

Happiness, Problem, Time, Help

“So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace.
"Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

People

“I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Law, Revenge

“People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong.”

Caroline B. Cooney Both Sides of Time

Source: Both Sides of Time

People, Time

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Hope, Feeling, Personality

“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Feeling

“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”

Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy

Source: Red Mars

People, Distant

“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book May Day

Source: May Day

Love, Lovers, Learning

“The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“I think we can all agree. SHINEY.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

“only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny… any life!…”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book North

Source: North

Life, Alcohol

“Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building, when and if you are an architect?”
“Yes.”
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.”

James Ellroy (1948) Novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist

Future

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Happiness

“[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.”

Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist

“So once you're dead there's just nothing?
Mari: Basically…
Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Dead

“Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Siege of Macindaw

People

“It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt.

After all, hell is supposed to be hot.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Hell, Hurt

“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.”

Dan Rather (1931) Journalist, Anchor

“Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.”

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

“Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

Personality

“You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.”

Georgette Heyer book Devil's Cub

Source: Devil's Cub

God, Time

“My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The monster to Robert Walton
Frankenstein (1818)
Source: Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus
Context: I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

Peace, Sleep

“I think I just became psychic," he said. "Holy crap.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”

Amy Sedaris (1961) American comedian

Source: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

Time, Personality

“A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Girl, Coffee

“No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: Court Duel

Love, Beauty

“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”

Jay McInerney (1955) American writer

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

On being informed that Faulkner had said that Hemingway "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Papa Hemingway (1966)