Talking To Yourself 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

“A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.”
― Tom Stoppard

“You become what you digest into your spirit. Whatever you think about, focus on, read about, talk about, you’re going to attract more of into your life. Make sure they're all positive.”
― Germany Kent

“Talking to oneself is a recognized means to learn, in fact, self-speak may be the seed concept behind human consciousness. Private conversation that we hold with ourselves might represent the preeminent means to provoke the speaker into thinking (a form of cognitive auto-stimulation), modify behavior, and perhaps even amend the functional architecture of the plastic human brain. Writing out our private talks with oneself enables a person to “see” what they think, a process that invites reflection, ongoing thoughtful discourse with the self, and refinement of our thinking patterns and beliefs. Internal sotto voice conversations with our private-self provide several advantages, but most people find it difficult to maintain self-speak for an extended period. Internal dialogue must compete with external distractions. Writing allows a person to resume a personal dialogue where they left off before interrupted by outside stimuli. A written disquisition also provides a permanent record that a person can examine, amend, supplement, update, or reject.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, My Beating Teenage Heart

“Count to ten," I whisper to myself. "Count. To. Ten." Becuase when I finish counting, this horror shall end.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“When you wish to talk to someone, talk to Jesus, He loves to hear you speak.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“[Zach] placed his hands on her shoulders so she'd look directly into his eyes. "You know, the moment I saw you, I said to myself -- because all the great people talk to themselves, of course -- I said, 'Zach, you have to meet that lovely lady, because she will make your life extraordinary.' I was not wrong.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Conjured

“In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

“I was only off by one percent,' I grumble.
'You talk to you, question?'
'Yes! I'm talking to me.'
'Humans are unusual.'
'Yes,' I say.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.”
― Ron Brackin

“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Christ," he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,
"You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face.
Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.”
― Kristen Callihan, Winterblaze

“Talking to myself is okay. Answering back is risky.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“Of course, I talk to myself. I have no prayer God. I have no prayer doG. Why not reverse bark and froth and rehearse verse?”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“Self-Talk and Prayer: When you audible the first and correctly interpret, the white coats correct you in a nuthouse. When you audible the second and misinterpret, the dinner coats swear you to an oath in The White House. Does this make you nuts too? The outfit your sanity seeking political asylum at my house.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“The problem is that we identify ourselves with the thoughts that pass over like clouds. We grab hold of the thoughts and replay it over and over and over until we think it is us. We replay conversations we’ve had and hypothetical conversations we wish we’d had. We even think of future things that we want to say to someone. We are just a step away from internally sounding like a schizophrenic on the street. We just know that we shouldn’t say all the things that we think.”
― Eric Overby

“Once you start talking to yourself, you’ll never be lonely.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride