158 quotes found
“I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own...”
“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”
“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!”
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
“Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.”
“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.”
“I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.”
“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to not...”
“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
“He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.”
“True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.”
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
“Thoughts are divine.”
“For a moment he wondered, again, if he should just give it all up. Perhaps he should go back to Italy, back to his hiding place. What made him think that he could rejoin the world of daylight?But h...”
“He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.”
“...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.”
