Antonya Nelson Quotes

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

I overthink decisions when I should really trust my heart.

Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

Intellect confuses intuition.

A divided heart offers a strange sensation.

There are times when things are clear in your head and your heart and everything comes all aligned and it's easy and it just feels good to do something. But most of the time it's not like that. Most of the time there's conflict between your head and your heart.