Persistent Thoughts Quotes

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Like, you'll always try your best to forget things that people say to you or about you, but you always remember. And you'll try to forget things you've seen that no one should see, but you just can't do it. And when you try to forget someone's face, you can't get it out of your head.

For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves

Funny how certain things stay with you.

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!

I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

There's always that one guy that you will always go back to. Even though you date other people in between, you are always in the back of your mind hoping to run into that guy.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

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.

I think music all the time.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me.

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.