Anne Enright Quotes

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

The only journey is the one within.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

I want people to find their inner depth.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

It is part of me; I could definitely be that if I wanted to, I just choose not to. I mean, I am an actress at my core, and I think we're all a little crazy.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.