Nikki Sixx Quotes

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

Since many years, I realized that I have a darker side in me, even though I still believe I'm a very positive person. But still, there is still darkness that makes me write music and create in general, and it affects everything that I do. I believe it's a beautiful darkness.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my Ph.D. in Mathematics. I was just about to earn my Master's along the way, but I knew something was wrong because I found myself crying all the time.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

I do enjoy and feel compelled to talk about things that are taboo. One, because I think I'm a troublemaker inside, if someone says, "Don't say that," it's all I want to say. And also, something I learned in therapy ... which is darkness can't exist in the light, and then that made me think of something that Mr. Rogers said, which is, "If it's mentionable, it's manageable."

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil's hole.

My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" - still the "darkness" is majestic.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!