William Hazlitt Quotes

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

Cannot find the comfort in this world.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

I actually didn't enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.