Sigrid Undset Quotes

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. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

I'm very insecure.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.

I spent much of my life hiding.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)