Mind Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities…

— Victor Hugo

“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

“But he did not think…thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“He snorted softly. His talent had destroyed everything he had ever valued. With a shake of his head, he moved his thoughts away from…

— Mitchell Hogan

“If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he thought, his…

— Neil Gaiman

“Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all. He felt…

— Fritz Leiber

“He did all this with great concentration in order to keep his thoughts at bay, in order to let them in only one at…

— José Saramago

“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every…

— Lawrence Durrell

“He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one;…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thought is impossible.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil