Benjamin Hoff Quotes

It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

My mind is never stopping. I think, if you stop, you die. Maybe it is a problem for me - I have to talk to myself and say, 'Please stop. Switch off.'

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

I over-think stuff a lot.

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me.

My brain is just always going and going and going.

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

I think too much.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.