Brain Fog Quotes

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.

Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used to believe was useless — that is the best brain for creative writing. Words come pouring out easily while my head still feels as if it is full of ground fog, wrapped in flannel and gauze, and surrounded by a hive of humming, velvety sleep bees.

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!

When you're not sleeping, you're not thinking straight.

My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.

...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question.

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

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

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

There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is where I'm stupid.'

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

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

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

I have some issues that I don't know if they will become issues. I have some things in my head, I forget things. I can't turn my head a lot or my brain crashes. I have back and wrist pain.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Some people have constipation of the brain but their mouth has the runs.

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, 'Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?' Is that normal? I'm 65. I don't know.