Katie Kitamura Quotes

We act in ways that are mysterious to ourselves.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.

I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

In world history man’s actions result in something quite different from what he purposes or intends.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.

You can never really tell what your influences are.

Exploring the dark side of my characters' personality is my forte.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.