Edvard Munch Quotes

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

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

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another kind of truth, and the moment I find, the moment I am separated from that life, the moment I am sort of in a world, every time I have gone out and performed in the, in the cinema for example, if you do two or three films on the trot you suddenly have this impression that you're becoming separate or separated from the world around you.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.