Richard Brautigan Quotes

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Think a lot, say little, and write nothing.

Let your thoughts be abundant, but let your mouth be under restraint.

I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

I stand astonished at my own moderation