Regina Spektor Quotes

The more mind is filled with chattering, more sex has appeal.

you just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?" "if you were in here you might want that too.

My thoughts are ridiculously loud and fast.

The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'

Worry divides the mind.

When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

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.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

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

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.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

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

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

I never had peace of mind.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.