Saint Augustine 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.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

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.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

Your real feelings are inside you.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.