John Steinbeck Quotes

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.

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

To forget someone means to think of him.

I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

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

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released

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.

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

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.

A mind obsessed with sex is good for nothing else.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.

I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.