Sherwood Anderson Quotes

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

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.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

A lot of times, fighters get not only physically tired but mentally exhausted. It's like a chess match - you're thinking of offense and defense at the same time. It's almost exhausting to think about it. After a while, you just go, 'I'll move my pawn.' A lot of times in fights, people get exhausted, and they're just sick of trying to focus on it.

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

There were a coupla times when I had had it. And when I'm pushed to the limit, I scream.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

Computers make me totally blank out.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

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

There is mental as well as physical fatigue. You have to cry, scream, keep on repeating the same dialogue till you get it right.

There's a lot of times when I just want to scream into the void.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.

This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.