Deep rivers run quiet.
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Quotes tagged ‘Thoughts’
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.
I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
These thoughts, whether from inside me or from external things, soon become too intense.
Being lonely is OK, and not everyone has to like you. You can’t always rely on people.
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it’s seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It’s taken me a long time to realize that.
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years; there’s someth…
It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.
People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone—I always have such a crowded…
People have all sorts of pasts, sometimes dark or dreary, but perhaps the actions they choose in the present are the ones that carry the most weight.
My head and the universe ache me.
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.
Beware thoughts that come in the night.
No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.