Quotes about head
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“You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

Stupidity

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Personality

“I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.”

Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint

Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

Fear, Travel

“Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.”
“Just most things.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“Do you have a death wish?" he asked. Will grinned at him.
I'm just relying on your judgment," he replied. "I can't keep track of everything in my head.”

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

Source: The Battle for Skandia

Death

“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. - Jace Wayland.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace and Clary, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
"And you what?"
"What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."

Feeling

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Variant: your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
Source: Dry

Thinking

“Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Problem

“During our lives… we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.”

Lance Armstrong book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Hope, Failure, Fight

“… and Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”

Herman Melville book Moby-Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

World, Understanding

“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

Angels, Dance, Dependency

“No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

People, Thinking

“Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Country

“Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try… what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested.

'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Bird

“I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Way

“If a little voice in your head is telling you something is up, maybe you should listen.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Crushed

“The stairs ended. I wished I knew the jackass who’d made the staircase so short. I’d throw him down the damn steps so he could count them with his head.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”

Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels

Source: Lord of Scoundrels

Idea, Time

“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?"
"We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Alcohol, Law, Training, Season

“I glanced at my brother. "How the hell did you jump to that conclusion?!" I asked.
He just grinned and tapped the side of his head. "Brains, dear girl, brains."
I snorted softly."I wasn't aware that was where you kept your brains.”

Keri Arthur Australian writer

Girl, Hell

“I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Time

“She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Variant: She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
Source: White Oleander

“I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.”

John Scalzi (1969) American science fiction writer

“A piece of heaven?" I managed to ask.
He slowly shook his head. "No. The other place. The one I'm going to burn in for thinking what I'm thinking.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking

“If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Thinking

“In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Life, Feeling, Tree, Winter

“As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. 'you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.' he said. 'i wish i could follow you.'
you do, she wanted to say, you live in my head all the time”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Time

“Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. She believed she couldn't hurt anybody as long as she was only working.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections (2001)

Life, Hurt

“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Heart, Perfection

“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your
head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and
purrs.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Life, Feeling, Lying

“I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.”
Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Idea

“With your head full of brains,
and your shoes full of feet,
You're too smart to go down any not-so-good-street.”

Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)

Shoe

“There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance.
Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, “Booga-wooga!”
At least Eddie laughed. Adrian flipped Jim the bird and headed to the fridge for another beer.”

Jessica Bird book Covet

Source: Covet

Beer, Bird

“Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write.

Why me?”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Tear, Waiting

“Nïx lay on her side, bending her elbow to casually prop her head in her hand. With a sigh she said, “Bowen, I took you on as my pet project because I like to ogle you. Due to your rowr factor.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

“And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Hurt

“Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Song for Summer

Source: A Song for Summer

Hope, Way, Kiss

“Sometimes… sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass… and we are you.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

Dreams, Thinking

“I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Heart

“Kill the body and the head will die.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Variant: ... for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Idea, Heart

“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are youabout?" said Lief.
"Life and death.”

Neal Shusterman book Everlost

Source: Everlost

Life, Death, Way

“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”

Eva Ibbotson book The Dragonfly Pool

Source: The Dragonfly Pool

Bird, Flying

“Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?"
She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

God, Training

“Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Source: Living Loving and Learning

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy

Hate

“Why is it that you’ve never got the least goddamned clue what’s happening inside your own head. Have you ever noticed this trend? Doesn’t it bug you sometimes?”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

“I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something….”

Perry Moore book Hero

Source: Hero

Love, Waiting, Future

“some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart…. it will keep you alive.
-merry gentry”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Caress of Twilight

Source: A Caress of Twilight

Heart

“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

World, Feeling

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

Way, Idea, Nature, Thinking

“Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Anger, Night

“Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Feeling, Strong, Winter, Sun

“You know, if you have certain frustrations," Ascanio said, "I would be happy to help you work them out."
Derek looked at me, pointed at Ascanio, and punched his left palm with his right fist a few times. I shook my head.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Happiness, Time, Help

“I don’t like your hair black. (Artemis)
And I don’t like your head attached to your shoulders. Guess we can’t all have what we want, huh? (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

Children, People, School, Boy

“You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

God

“Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Match Me If You Can

“Why do you lie" I ask her.
"To block the truth."
Fair enough.
Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Truth, Lie, Time

“Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an atheist for his opinions. Let him have a care of his practices.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

Letter to John Quincy Adams (16 June 1816). Adams Papers (microfilm), reel 432, Library of Congress. James H. Hutson (ed.), The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 20
1810s
Source: The Portable John Adams

Hurt

“Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Love, Hate, Feeling