Voices Inside Your Head Quotes

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The voice in her head told her not to trust him. But then, the voice in her head didn't trust anyone.”
― C.J. Daugherty, Night School

“My eyes flickered when I heard the Voice inside my head. (You mean you don’t have one? You can get ‘em at Target.)”
― James Patterson, The Final Warning

“Paranoia (n)
 A condition where a person always doubts others and themselves.
 A condition where all compliments seem too fake to be a reality.
 A condition where a person is unable to trust someone even after knowing them for years.
 A condition where a person thinks self-sabotage is healthy.
 A condition where a person just can’t turn off the grinding noises in their brain.
 A condition where a person feels that someone is only nice to them because they need something in return.
 A condition where a person can no longer differentiate between delusions and reality.  A condition where a person’s own mind is their biggest enemy.
 A condition where a person is ridden with irrational fears and ‘yellow wallpaper’ feels.
 A condition where a person feels that when people are not talking to them they are either talking about them or against them. Always.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.”
― Janae Mitchell

“My instincts told me that death would somehow be…different. But my rational mind reminded me that I had probably tempted fate one too many times. At least, I thought it was my rational mind. It sure seemed like the usual voice inside my head. Thank God there was only one of them.”
― M.A. George, Relativity

“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore.
But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in you head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Are those conspirators that you spy through your window or is it a mirror reflecting the chattering parasites in your mind?”
― Stewart Stafford

“The voices inside her head had awakened from their peace as they hissed in whisper through her ears. They slithered inside Sophia's mind and through her thoughts, entrancing her under a spell of anxiety, spilling all of her worries that she had stored away.”
― Arti Manani, The Colours of Denial

“My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.”
― Bonnie Shimko, You Know What You Have To Do

“We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It is always at this time, just before he slips into unconsciousness, when the voice comes to him: not as loud and snide and insistent as it once was, but still there, still hounding him from behind, still trying to drive him stumbling forward. Is this the best you can do?

Tonight, for the first time in many, many years, Philip chooses not to ignore it: he answers. It is. It really is.

Then say it, and shout down the darkness.

'It is," Philip whispers between clenched teeth as Alicia mumbles and stirs in her slumber. 'It is!”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

“Writers block to me is all the voices in your head trying to tune out the one voice that has something worthy say.”
― Shanet Outing

“If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present minute.

If words are to be sounded, impress through the partition in ever slight measure to the other side the other signature the other hearing the other speech the other grasp.”
― Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

“That voice you listen to is no friend. It promises so much but when has it ever given you what it promised? When has it ever given you any happiness longer than a fleeting moment? It has your destruction as its goal, not your happiness.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“No matter what you hear, do not go into the Forest. If you hear something, or someone, in there... don't listen to them."
Alice smirked at that. "Don't worry. I can still tell the difference.”
― Emory R. Frie, Enchanted Forest

“The voice that comes out
from a painful heart
on a long rainy night
that voice travels far away
- Shattered”
― Jyoti Patel, ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS

“I have noticed one thing, whenever a doubt arises, there are two voices voicing two ways. Always. One has to choose. I have noticed another thing, whenever two voices shout, one tends to pick up the one which is closer to heart.”
― Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...

“The Whisper Of Too Late

As a voice whispers from above as it did all of yesterday's chances fading in the smoke of your demise like your words of today falling back into the abyss of your own free-will.”
― John M. Sheehan

“I want to say now that the voice takes up space, in two senses. It inhabits and occupies space; and it also actively procures space for itself. The voice takes place in space, because the voice is space.”
― Steven Connor, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

“Sounds"
Few are the sounds
that deepen and enrich silence ..
There are sounds without which
silence remains incomplete,
like a ticking clock
or the sudden sound of a cycling fridge…
The chirping roaches and cicadas,
or croaking frogs…
Then there are those sounds that make existence
more alienating and unbearable,
like the scuffle of a big insect against a window or a door
as if committing suicide!
Or a creaking rusty door
we close behind a departing loved one,
knowing deep inside that they won’t return
and nothing would be the same
after closing that door..
The whistling sound of a kettle
declaring that peace and tranquility
are illusions that never last…
There are also those sounds
that summarize the traumas of the past
from which hearers never recover,
like the screams and cries
of the woman next door when beaten by her husband…
The coughing, spitting, and heavy breathing
of an elderly woman
we visited in our childhood…
And can we ever forget
the sounding sirens of the ships and trains
declaring that departure is inevitable?

[Original poem published in Arabic on September 15, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“conquering that voice is one of the greatest achievement.”
― Nontobeko Jobe

“The voice of the heart reveals an absolute sense of knowing that becomes clear when the mind is quiet. It is the heart that holds a receiver tuned to the frequencies of God.”
― Troy Hadeed, My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different

“Listen more to the voice inside your head. It knows you better than you even realize.”
― Nitzan Hamburg