Listening Quote by Yasushi Inoue

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank…

— Steve Martin

“Scraps and shreds of thoughts were simply swarming in his brain, but he could not catch at one, he could not rest on one,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had become a…

— Ayn Rand

“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

“He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not survive the…

— Diana Gabaldon

“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

“A break from the task in hand and a cleared mind usually made him think better.”

— Mark Ellis

“He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that there was…

— Paolo Giordano

“Physically he was tired and his body relaxed throughout its entire length; his mind was in much the same state, floating free, detached, as…

— Patrick O'Brian