He Thought Quotes
511 He Thought quotes by 345 unique authors
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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have…
— Graham Greene
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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you…
— Christopher Paolini
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist…
— Joseph Heller
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He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the…
— Flannery O'Connor
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He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I…
— Mario Puzo
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It…
— Dr. Seuss
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Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you…
— Mark Helprin
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But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If…
— Douglas Adams
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He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ…
— Terry Pratchett
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Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not…
— Cormac McCarthy
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As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and…
— Arundhati Roy
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Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of…
— Gary Paulsen
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There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles…
— Virginia Woolf
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I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but…
— John Green
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Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature;…
— James Joyce
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Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit…
— J R Ward
Who Wrote These He Thought Quotes
345 authors contributed a total of 511 He Thought Quotes, led by these top contributors: