Quotes about head
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“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”
Source: The Dovekeepers

Source: If: A Father's Advice to His Son

“It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.”
Source: The Golden Lily

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Source: Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
Source: Love in the Afternoon

“Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!”
Source: Magician's Ward

“Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”
Variant: Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
Source: Transformations
“It will go away… The stuff in your head. Little by little.”
Source: Suicide Notes

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Walking (June 1862)
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“Empty pockets never held anyone back…it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.”
"Enthusiasm makes the difference" (2003), p. 58
Source: Night World, No. 1
“I turned and bumped my head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.”
Source: Magic Slays

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

“It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.”
Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 315

“No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.”
Source: The Lost Colony

“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”

“Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”
Source: Blood Rites

“One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown
Source: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.”
Source: Joe Jones

Who Has Seen the Wind? http://www.repeatafterus.com/title.php?i=1191, st. 2 (1872).

“The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Source: The Last Book in the Universe


Part Four, Ch. V (pp. 237-238)
Source: The Good Soldier (1915)
Context: It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.
Is there any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people — like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?