Sharon Creech Quotes

I can't stop thinking like this.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

I over-think stuff a lot.

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.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

I'll let myself obsess over things.

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

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.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

The thing that keeps the thoughts coming back is the power that you put in the thought that you can't think of it.

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

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

OCD is an anxiety disorder, one that brings conscious intrusive thoughts and compulsions - 'Touch the bannister. Pick up that rock. You'd better do it, or something terrible will happen.'

I just think too much sometimes.

I think too much.

Basically, I have to stop overthinking.

I just can't turn off the part me that asks that question over and over.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

There is simply too much to think about.

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.