Intense Reflection Quotes

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long.

Think until it hurts.

It was really important that 'Dream' kept the balance of strength and total vulnerability - which was my exact headspace when it was being written.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.