Head - Quotes
One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it`s like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
What a wee little part of a person`s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
All you arrive at in the end
is a sad, washed-out, sandy plain,
you gaze about, take it in, bend
a wise head, nod; hope is in vain.
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that`s assault, not leadership.
One thought keeps going round my head:
The thought of dying in my bed!
Slowly withering like some overblown
Flower the greenfly gnaws and makes his own;
Wasting away like an old candlestick
In a deserted room, grown pale and sick.
Whether you`re a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.
Nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.