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Thoughtful Quotes (page 144)

The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark, our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. Gene Wolfe
At last she sighed. "But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice. Gustave Flaubert
Satellites can see your thoughts, but not through rock,' is like something they might say. In John William's case, it was conscious hyperbole and therefore commentary. At one level, it was reefer-inspired. It was partly for fun. It was other things, too-but not derangement. I give no credence to the interpretation, and I knew him better than anybody. David Guterson
Ayn Rand quote: "This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines,..."
This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope. Ayn Rand
Charles Bukowski quote: "Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter..."
Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse? Charles Bukowski
Charles de Lint quote: "Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all..."
Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities. Charles de Lint
Sri Chinmoy quote: "Wait for tomorrow. To think tomorrow's thoughts."
Wait for tomorrow. To think tomorrow's thoughts. Sri Chinmoy
What was on the other side?" Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it." "He... never went through it?" "That’s why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn’t see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever. Philip K. Dick
...our heads, the little globes which hold the midnight sky and the shining, invisible universes of thought, have been taken about as much for granted as the growth of a yellow pumpkin in the fall. Loren Eiseley
Something bright and alien flashed across the sky... and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies and thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our restless blood could find frontiers in the illimitable air. But by that time we were all pretty well committed; and the Jazz Age continued; we would all have one more. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Douglas Sirk quote: "I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the..."
I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart. Douglas Sirk
I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a piece of bread in your mouth and suck on it you'll go to heaven. A. Whitney Brown
There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried. Jodi Picoult
But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got. Suzanne Collins
Muhammad Iqbal quote: "people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara..."
people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. Muhammad Iqbal

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