Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.

I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.