Carey Mulligan Quotes

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

I'm in a positive space, but I do have my days. Everybody has their days.

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.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your body is filled with resentment, worry, fear, lust, guilt, anger, bitterness, or any other emotional disease, it’s going to shorten your life.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.