Carl Jung Quotes

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

Whatever happens, we can deal with it if we admit that it's happening and so on. So to be comfortable with what is - that is a real superpower.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

It's amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I'd seen other people go through horrible things. And I just thought, "Wow, I would be a complete mess," and then suddenly when it happens, you realize you had more strength than you knew and it helps you to get through.

Remind yourself that when things don't go right, everything will be OK. And if you think that, then everything will be.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

Even in despair, man must laugh.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.