Personal Darkness Quotes

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the stuff that I'm fascinated by is the stuff that's part of the public imagination of what horror is. The bleakness is a different issue. I think that just stems from my personality. I wish that I offered a little more glimmer of hope sometimes.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

I think Psycho Sam is closer to the real me in some ways which is frightening to admit, but I guess... I mean, I'm definitely into the paranormal.

You don't think of the devil who's inside.

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.

I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness

I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

I don't do anything for Halloween. I carry Halloween inside of me.

I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to you?

Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.