Aldous Huxley Quotes

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

A daydream is an evasion.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.

I'm somewhat in my own cloud.

What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.

Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.