My Head Quotes
2377 My Head quotes by 1606 unique authors
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I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
— Victor Hugo
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Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at…
— Isaac Babel
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I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.
— William Butler Yeats
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Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when…
— Dave Eggers
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Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite…
— Haruki Murakami
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I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle…
— Diane Setterfield
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The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity:…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you.…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good…
— Neil Gaiman
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A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the…
— David Sedaris
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So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly…
— Angela Carter
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All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I…
— Sylvia Plath
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I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your…
— Jean Webster
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece…
— Geraldine McCaughrean
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Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never…
— Jennifer Weiner
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The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize,…
— Marina Tsvetaeva
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