David Whyte Quotes

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I have a scary side of me.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

There was a touch of anxiety in the whole human race about its future.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

There's always doubt and fear. If you're a human being, everybody's got it.

Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.

A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.

I've learned that we all have an ugly side.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.