Mark Pellegrino Quotes

We all have our inner demons.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

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

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.