Haruki Murakami Quotes

Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

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.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.