Uncontrollable Thoughts Quotes

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

Control your life through insanity.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

Periodically, my mind is blown and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

My mind runs I can never catch it even if I got a head start.

Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.

A lot of my songs are about being a teenager with a tornado in your head.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.

I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.