Quotes About Inner

I don't want to talk as much,' she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. 'It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures.

Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves.

You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the center of me there's some ice that never will melt, maybe it's just been there too long. But you mustn't worry. You didn't put it there.

Paris was a good place to fight your demons.

Real ghosts are so much easier to deal with than the kind we carry around in our heads. Most people haunt themselves more effectively than any spirit.

we're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that.

But Jasmine knew that everyone was evil, down deep when you scrape the skin away. Inside their heads everyone hunted, everyone killed, everyone was a monster.

The Warrior battles the whole of his life, within and without, against the notion that life doesn't make a difference.

The time has come to arm-wrestle some demons.

The nasty voices are always on call.

What are these scars from? she asked. They're battle wounds, I replied. She looked at me for a long time. Who were you battling? Myself.

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.

There was some unresolved inner knot which she wished to untie and which was quite beyond my skill as a lover or a friend. Of course. Of course. I knew as much as could be known of the psychopathology of hysteria at that time.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look great on the outside if you are not healthy on the inside.

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.

I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

Genius is nourished from within and without.