Mental Fortress Quotes

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

There's a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can't escape. I have a strange sense of pride that my brain works that way, but I'm also terrified of what would happen if I ever tried to think in another way.

As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense mechanisms to ward off attacks from competing ideas or new data. The system makes us comfortable but resistant to change, no matter how much change might be called for.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?