Carl Jung Quotes

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

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.

I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

I think you see in people's eyes what they've been through. Anything in their lives shows up in their eyes.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

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.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.