Lynda Barry Quotes

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

so your father told you once that you were his princess you won't see the castle you cannot find your prince and now you've grown a lot and your dress don't fit right your daddy's not a hero he stole your chariot so here you are in pieces trying to prove to us it's real the softness of your smile and the lies you want to feel the scales beneath your skin are showing off today there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and I have made a home here for me you'll burn it down with your fantasy

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

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

I think good art does come from a dark place.

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

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

We all - if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don't always want to talk about or acknowledge.

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

I look into my own black heart.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.