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“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

Iain Pears book The Dream of Scipio

Source: The Dream of Scipio

Time

“I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Time

“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”

Liam Callanan American writer

Source: The Cloud Atlas

People

“Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Books, World, Time

“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Way, Time, Waiting

“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
Source: The Complete Essays

Marriage, Bird

“The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we don’t know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Affliction, Suffering

“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Love, People

“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Failure

“Inside every believe, there’s a lie.” - Eliza Caelum”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Lie

“Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.
- My Bestfriend's Girl”

Dorothy Koomson (1971) British writer

Feeling, Girl, Cry

“I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer

Smile, Hurt

“No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Variant: No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Source: Different Seasons

Business

“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.”

Troy Kennedy Martin (1932–2009) British screenwriter

“I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.”

Dr. Seuss book The Sneetches and Other Stories

Source: The Sneetches and Other Stories

Fear

“But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Marriage

“*Oh, I know I could say were through
And tell myself I'm over you
But even if I made a vow
I promise not to miss you now
And try to hide the truth inside
I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Truth, Lie

“Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.”

Kay Ryan (1945) American poet

Variant: The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.
Source: Say Uncle

Love

“I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

God, Way, Water

“I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Life, Revenge, Dead

“You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Tear, Water, Cry

“Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Life, Knowledge, Tear, Tattoo

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Books, World

“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Sun

“Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”

Stephen King book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Change

“It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.”

Tove Jansson book Comet in Moominland

Source: Comet in Moominland

Singing, Sea

“Only hearts… They're in the inside of the inside of me.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Heart

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“After a minute he said, "It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that…except you.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street
Source: Lyrics, 1962-1985

Shoe, Time

“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Love, Hunger, Revenge

“There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Love, Chance

“Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.”

Emily Post (1872–1960) American etiquette expert

Sense

“But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Breathless

Lie, Peace

“I am well protected
Too locked up
Inside myself
To get free”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“I also think he is given to disguises… Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: What Happens in London

Thinking

“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Personality, Night

“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”

Susan Sontag book In America

Source: In America

People, Silence, Waiting

“Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.”

Tana French book The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

People

“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and…

he was a beautiful butterfly!”

Eric Carle book The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Source: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Beauty, Way, Housing

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: After the Quake

Feeling

“Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: The Marriage of Opposites

Time, Personality

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Thinking, Waiting

“Just by gazing upon her face…
No matter how weary you are,
you will feel happy,
deep inside your heart,
you will feel a warmth
This is a "piece of joy"
This is all the happiness you need.
Normally, we call this "love"…”

Yoshiki Nakamura (1969) Artist

Source: Skip Beat!, Vol. 11

Love, Happiness, Feeling, Heart

“Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists
Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

Boy

“… and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Way, Heart

“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

God, People, Heart

“She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.”

Cynthia Voigt (1942) American writer of young adult books

Source: When She Hollers

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Children, People

“I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.”

Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist

Source: Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?"
"The plan is insane," Ehren said. "YOU are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.”

Frank Beddor book The Looking Glass Wars

Source: The Looking Glass Wars

Time

“Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

Feeling, Light, Strong

“I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.”

Augusten Burroughs book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Love, Happiness

“Deep down inside, my heart knew the score.
And I know that Haven was wrong.
It's not always a case of one loving more than the other.
When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally.
Differently - but still equal.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Night Star

Love, People, Heart

“Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Way, Hurt, Heartbreaking

“We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.”

Mark Millar book Superman: Red Son

Source: Superman: Red Son

People, Speed

“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.”

Elizabeth Strout (1956) American writer

Source: My Name is Lucy Barton

Life

“Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.”

Frances Mayes book Under the Tuscan Sun

Source: Under the Tuscan Sun

“It sounds silly I know. But for me, the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie. Like a benevolent god, a good song will never let you down.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

God, Lie, Music

“I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.”

Bear Grylls (1974) Chief Scout, adventurer, author

Source: Mud, Sweat and Tears

Night

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life - where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Variant: All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
Source: It Chooses You

Life, People

“His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place… The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it made him bleed inside. I wondered if it hurt, if it burned in his throat.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Hurt

“I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys Iʹd swiped when weʹd come back inside. ʺThe driver,ʺ I said.

I DIDNʹT GET TO DRIVE.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.”

Judy Blume Tiger Eyes

Source: Tiger Eyes

Truth, Way, Change

“We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Death, Hope, Thinking

“I’m not afraid of the darkness outside.
It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.”

Shelagh Delaney (1938–2011) English playwright

Housing

“The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.”

Edith Pattou book East

Source: East

Feeling, Sun, Joy

“Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Light, Heart, Fight

“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Life

“Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.”

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

Courage, Tear

“I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

Kiss, Water, Hurt

“Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: Necklace of Kisses

God

“… sometimes when we are beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now."”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

“I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Thinking, Hurt

“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise (1984)

Death, Question

“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”

Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Fear

“Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Loss

“The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Beauty

“Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

People, Books, Learning, Time

“And metaphors like cats behind your smile,
Each one wound up to purr,
each one a pride,
Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (…)”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Smile, Cats

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Like Life

“I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible---
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Chance, Hurt

“Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bitter Blood

“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Section 50
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

Travel

“Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

Fear

“There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Death

“You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Men, Evil

“I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Learning

“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Variant: The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant.
Source: Oblivion

Parting

“I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born… in order to become the world's strongest shinobi… an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me…”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Life, World

“The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Kiss

“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

People, Way