Quotes about thinking
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“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

“I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

World, Beauty, Hell

“Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?'
'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.”

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

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

People, World

“I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves…”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

Source: Insecure at Last

Home

“I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Memory, Time

“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are. I mean, do you actually realize how much adult conversation is spent on this fuckin business? Facts treated like they were opinions just for the simple purpose of talking about it longer? Some people might think that's interesting, bub, but I'll tell you. It's romanticizing a goddamn rock by calling it a mountain range to me. People waste a helluva lot of time they could be putting to useful purposes. This is a game. See it and forget about it.”

Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Source: The Sportswriter (1986), p. 104

People, Stupidity, Mountain, Game

“And I mouth into the phone,, in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well in the next life. If there is one. If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Life, Hope, Past, Future

“We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Time

“She'd cried loudly enough that the man sitting across from her had offered her a tissue, and she'd screamed, what do you think you're looking at jerk? At him, because that was what you did in New York. After that she felt a little better.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Jerk

“What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?”

“Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Spring, Sleep

“Crap, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I'm thinking we have about fifteen vampires and no blood," Claire said. "Is that it?"

"No, I was thinking we're out of chips. Of course that's what I was thinking.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Behavior, Feeling

“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

“If you’re going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me. Because I can’t be rational when it comes to you. I’m crazy about you. Literally. I can’t think about a future without you— it freaks me out.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Captivated by You

Future

“No!" Leo yelled.
"Uhhh," Nico groaned from the floor.
"Piper!" Jason cried.
"Monkey!" Frank yelled.
"Not monkeys," Hazel grumbled. "I think those are dwarfs."
"Stealing my stuff!" Leo yelled, and ran for the stairs.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Girl

“I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

People, Fear

“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Life, Hell, Parting

“Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Children, Stupidity, Intelligence, Appearance

“There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.”

Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) writer

“« Are you hungry, baby?” Curran asked.
“Starving.”
“I think we should go to dinner.”
“Great idea.”
“What are you going to wear?”
“My badass face.”
“Good choice,” he said. »”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Idea, Baby

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Women

“It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.”

Harry G. Frankfurt book On Bullshit

Source: On Bullshit

Truth, Lie

“I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Madness

“Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

Home

“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Life, Fate, Happiness, Nature

“He says presents aren't important, but I think they are - not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

Understanding

“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Feeling

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Life, People, Books, Reading

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

Joan Didion (1934) American writer

Fear

“Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Opal Deception

Friendship, Science

“Oh, gross! Zombie goo. (Caleb)
Ooo, I wonder if it tastes like chicken? What do you think? (Simi)
I think I’m never eating guacamole again as long as I live. (Caleb)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Daughter of the Blood

Education, Lying, Time

“He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar
through the clouds, while I often feel
like the cloud itself.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Feeling

“… he’s infuriated that his e-reader allows him to only know theof a book he’s read, not the number of pages. This, he thinks, is 92 percent stupid.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

Books, Stupidity, Reading

“It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

“No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Sadness, Moms, Housing

“I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

Source: The Principles of Uncertainty

Question, Patience

“I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,
vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,
downward, in the soaked guts of the earth,
absorbing and thinking, eating each day.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Sleep

“Meg, I give you your faults."

"My faults!" Meg cried.

"Your faults."

"But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"

"Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Louis-Cesare slowly pulled himself into a half-standing position against the side of the winery.'What? Did you think one little mage was going to do me in?' He swallowed hard. 'Hell, that was just a warm-up.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Midnight's Daughter

Hell

“Let me guess. Luke an Amatis are at the Accords Hall, having another meeting.”
“Yeah. I think they’re having the meeting where they get together and decide what other meetings they need to have.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

Love, Time

“I think, therefore I am… confused.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

“We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Pain, Happiness

“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Source: Wild Orchids

Love, Heart

“From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:
'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

Truth, Time

“That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.”

Stella Gibbons book Cold Comfort Farm

Source: Cold Comfort Farm

“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

Pleasure

“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”

E.M. Forster book A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

Marriage, Understanding

“It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell

People, Clothes

“People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

People, Question

“Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want?”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Parent

“An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Life

“In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up?”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Love, Painting

“No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

“Leo scratched his head. “Well I dunno about Enchiladas—”
“Enceladus,” Piper corrected.
“Whatever. But Old Potty Face mentioned another name. Porpoise Fear, or something?”
“Porphyrion?” Piper asked. ”He was the giant king, I think.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Fear

“"What makes you think that Valentine's change of plans had anything to do with your brother?"
"Because only Jace can piss someone off that much."”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Luke and Clary, pg. 325
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Change

“Its three in the morning,' she noted with dismay. 'Do you think Simon’s all right?'
'I think he‘s weird, actually,' said Jace. 'Though that has little to do with time.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Time

“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Life, Learning

“When a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“I still don't get it" Coach Hedge muttered as they roamed the centre aisle. "They named a whole town after Leo's table?"
"I think the town was here first, Coach" Nico said.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House

Tear

“I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense…. But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.”

Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) British historical romance and detective fiction novelist

Literature

“It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Hope, Time

“Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Look at it this way," Ms. Terwilliger said, after several moments of thought. "The callistana thinks of you two as its parents.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Way, Parent

“You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

Angels

“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

“Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.”

Harlan Coben book Caught

Source: Caught

World, Way, Reality, Universe

“A shell screams over the house. He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Housing

“You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'

How?'

Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

“You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.”

Jean M. Auel (1936) Novelist

Learning, Reading

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Beauty

“Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Women, God, Angels

“I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Help

“every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Code Name Cassandra

“My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel.
Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Way, Feeling, Girl, Problem

“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Reading

“It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Source: The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present

Children, Time, Reading

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

Loneliness

“What hope is there?” I asked. “If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?”

“There isn’t,” he said. “We’re on our own. And we have to make the choices we think are best for our own survival.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Hope, Angels

“You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: On a Whim

Youth, Star, Flowers, Birthday

“A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do.”

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

People, Learning, Time

“Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

People, Way

“The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.”

Iain Banks book The Bridge

Source: The Bridge

People, Fools

“I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Learning, Forgetting

“We all know that Beauty grows to love the Beast. She grows to love him, despite what her family might think ⎼ for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Love, Education, Family, Beauty

“Perfect Day:
It was a day filled with the glow of ordinary things & we passed them quietly from hand to hand for a long time & someone said she had picked a perfect day to be born & I think all of us felt the same.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Time, Perfection

“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”

Wú Chéng'ēn (1500–1582) Chinese writer

Source: Monkey: A Journey to the West

World, Way

“When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.”

Joseph Boyden book Through Black Spruce

Source: Through Black Spruce

People

“Tell me the name of your best friend. (Sunshine)
Wulf Tryggvason. (Talon)
Oh my God, you just answered a question. I think the world may end over it. (Sunshine)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

God, World, Question

“On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

People

“The pervert."
"He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant."
"Semantics.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“Going back to something is harder than you think.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“I was talking about Cady’s hair,” says Bonnie. “You don’t have to tell her she looks dead.” “It’s okay,” I tell Bonnie. “I don’t actually care what you think, so it’s perfectly okay.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Dead

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Quotes about thinking
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