Mental Agitation Quotes

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.

There is no tranquility in ideas.

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

Brownson never will stop and listen, neither in conversation, but what is more, not in solitude.

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.