He Thought Quotes

511 He Thought quotes by 345 unique authors

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' — J.R.R. Tolkien
He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment… — Peter Ackroyd
There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you.… — Ray Bradbury
Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white… — Anne Carson
Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton... — Annie Proulx
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm… — Annie Proulx
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot,… — Carl Hiaasen
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? — Boris Pasternak
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever… — Tim Burton
He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds. — Marguerite Duras
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we… — Clive Barker
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had… — Cormac McCarthy
I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember! — Ray Bradbury
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned… — Hermann Hesse
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So… — Cormac McCarthy
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,… — Victor Hugo
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up… — Charles Dickens
It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by… — George Orwell
Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them… — James M. Barrie
That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell… — Megan Whalen Turner
Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them… — C.S. Lewis
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves? — Orson Scott Card

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