Crime and punishment Quote by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“like he could devote his thoughts to something other than when he might get to sleep. Like his mind was huge and whirring and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though…

— Virginia Woolf

“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.”

— Dianna Hardy

“He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic, but he bore down gently, intensifying his concentration, letting go of his…

— Tom Robbins

“His mind swarmed with superstitious suspicions.”

— Herman Melville

“it is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.”

— annie dillard

“He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.…

— Don DeLillo

“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or…

— Oscar Wilde

“It was another one of his enigmatic brainteasers that he never elaborated on. I should have pressed for more, but I was too busy…

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing…

— Oscar Wilde