Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

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

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

I am the self-consumer of my woes.

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

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.

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

I'm not a tortured soul.

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

I guess I have an affinity towards darkness, the dark side.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.