Bad Thoughts Quotes

“Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ....”
― Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

“It is one thing to think horrible thoughts, but it is another to behave atrociously, as you know. You can easily think of times when you were horrible, and when I say easily I mean it is very easy to remember these times and hard to stop remembering. They ache in the brain and the body, these shameful memories, like a broken bone that has never quite healed right.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts; one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation].”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Well, those thoughts are just the variety you should never think. You just put up a sign someplace in your head and you never let them in, okay?” He said it with certainty, and he said it with some degree of conviction in his voice, but all three of them knew that it was not always how you wanted it to be. Sometimes those things just found a way right on in, and once they were in you were done.”
― R.J. Ellory, Bad Signs

“Sometimes Violet envied her grandmother’s empty mind, her quickness to forget, and the ease with which she returned to a peaceful state. It was almost as if the disease didn’t allow anything but good thoughts to remain in her mind. Any trauma and evil seemed to vanish as soon as it could.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew