Browsing Topic Best Magical Thinking Quotes

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother’s angels and djinns.

One person’s magical thinking is another person’s cynicism.

In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs…The way I write is who I am, or have become.

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

I’m disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry – including my own, mostly – sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don’t really have a better idea.

It’s hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.