Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

I study Carl Jung, who talks a lot about the shadow side, the repressed side. I think the scariest thing in the world is repression. There's plenty to be idealistic about, but we have to be aware of all sides of ourselves, and there are definitely shadows in all of us.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

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.

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

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

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.

We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.

There is a dark side of me - it's the side people don't really get to see. I think everyone has that.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.