Jon Glaser Quotes

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

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

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

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.