Quotes about inside
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“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Universe

“sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Love, Thinking, Heart

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

Beauty, Change

“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

People

“All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.”

Mo Willems (1968) American children's illustrator and writer

Life, Idea, Change

“Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Housing

“We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.”

Jonathan Maberry book Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

“While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

Business, Personality

“It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?"
She had no idea. "I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Bayou Moon

Idea, Wolf, Housing, Dependency

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

…"Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Love

“The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before… to test yout limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Pain, Courage

“It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

Study

“I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.”

Anaïs Nin book House of Incest

Source: House of Incest

Books, Peace, Dreams, Madness

“Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don’t come out.”

Janet Frame (1924–2004) New Zealand author

Source: Owls Do Cry

“It doesn’t change what we are to each other. It’s like there’s always been a piece of my soul missing, and it’s inside you, Clary.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Soul, Change

“I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: “You’re blue.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Thinking

“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Soul, Star, Universe

“Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)”

Victoria Moran (1950) American writer

Source: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Moms

“Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of”

Manuel Puig (1932–1990) Argentine author and screenwriter

Reality, Study, Reading

“Don't worry, chief. We've got these Tualaghi surrounded - from the inside."
"Exactly," Erak replied dryly.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

World, Parting

“Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.”

Alice Hoffman The Story Sisters

Source: The Story Sisters

Love

“Filters are for cigarrettes and coffee," Simon muttered under his breath as they went inside. "Two things I could use right now, incidentally.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Coffee

“We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.”

Harun Yahya (1956) Turkish author

Source: The Little Man in The Tower

World

“There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

According to The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when (2006), Keyes, Macmillan, p. 91 ISBN 0312340044 , the cover of a trade magazine once credited this observation to Churchill, but it dates back well into the nineteenth century, and has been variously attributed to Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, w:Theodore Roosevelt, w:Thomas Jefferson, w:Will Rogers and Lord Palmerston, among others. One documented use in Social Silhouettes (1906) by George William Erskine Russell, p. 218 wherein a character attributes the saying to Lord Palmerston.
Misattributed

Horse

“I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 3, pg. 59

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

“Each person has a literature inside them.”

Anna Deavere Smith (1950) American actress, playwright and professor

Literature, Personality

“There was earth inside them, and they dug.”

Paul Celan (1920–1970) Romanian poet and translator

“The best books come from someplace deep inside…. Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Books

“I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Source: My Reading Life

Books, Change

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Time

“We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside… Inside.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Heart

“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”

Anthony Horowitz book Scorpia Rising

Source: Scorpia Rising

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

Love, Books, Way, Reading

“I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.”

Primo Levi (1918–1987) Italian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, essayist

Beauty, Housing

“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”

Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Tree of Codes

Source: Tree of Codes

“How you're still always trapped.

How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Sleep, Personality

“I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.”

Ian McEwan book Sweet Tooth

Source: Sweet Tooth

Shoe, Way

“I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off."
"Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Forgetting

“I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Soul, Cry

“I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Then I let the stories live
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

World, Dreams

“The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.”

Michael Singer (1945) American landscape architect

Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Problem, Reality, Parting

“How the hell do you think I feel?" I don't want to end up inside a woman!" He paused. "Well, at least not that way”

Karen Chance book Touch the Dark

Source: Touch the Dark

Way, Feeling, Hell, Thinking

“Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Sadness, Feeling, Imagination

“Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Simon to Clary, pg. 340
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Housing

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Tear, Memory, Sad

“You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

Training

“Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

People, Music

“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”

Sarah Ruhl Eurydice

Source: Eurydice

Love, Beauty, Housing

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Love, Hate, Boy

“I think I made you up inside my head.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Thinking

“But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.”

Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter

Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Someone Like You (1998)

Books, Color, Waiting, Help

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Willful Creatures

Love

“under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the inside out.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
for ever.”

Peter Ackroyd (1949) English author

Source: First Light

Love, Books, Reading, Parting

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.”

Michael Ignatieff book Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

Memory, Forgetting

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Happiness, Thinking

“The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.”

Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Pain, World, Light

“Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Past

“There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.”

James St. James (1966) American writer

People, Time

“To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Heart, Personality

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Time

“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!”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Fear, Nature, Time, Parting

“The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

People, Feeling

“We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.”

Jane Yolen book The Devil's Arithmetic

Source: The Devil's Arithmetic

“And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.”

Barbara Park (1947–2013) American juvenile author

Source: Rosie Swanson: Fourth-Grade Geek for President

“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

People, Change

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”

Charles Simic (1938) American poet

“The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster

Beauty, Angels, Feeling, Thinking

“If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Love, Life, Fear, Lying

“Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle”

Gregory Maguire book Son of a Witch

Source: Son of a Witch

Memory, Heart, Parting

“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Fear, Law

“I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:
I want to feel the darkness
of the cry. I want
words as rough
as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Feeling, Cry

“Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Forever Princess

People

“Right. Vampires. But how do they get inside?"
"They fly"…
"We dont fly," Clary felt impelled to point out.
"No," Jace agreed. "We dont fly. We break and enter."…
"Flying sounds like more fun."
-Clary & Jace, pg.258-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Flying

“Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain.”

Iain Banks book The Wasp Factory

Source: The Wasp Factory

People, Feeling

“I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.”

Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) American author and screenwriter

Source: Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

Feeling

“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.”

Margaret Atwood book Dancing Girls

Source: Dancing Girls

Thinking

“I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I realized the problem: no one I knew would have come up with that day for me., I thought,.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Problem

“When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Feeling

“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

JPod (2006)
Source: The Gum Thief

Money, People

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”

Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933) British author

Source: Unexpected Blessings

Past, Future, Help

“… It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk about the inside from the inside, I do not want to leave it
I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread”

Hélène Cixous (1937) French philosopher and writer

Source: The Book of Promethea

Happiness, Cry

“You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most, and if you ever lost your good looks, i bet you wouldn't be smart enough to get them back. Kyle Kingsbury, you are beastly.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

“Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

World

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: I don't want to be somebody's crush. if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think i am. And i don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so i can feel it too. - Sam
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Feeling, Thinking

“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Cry

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Quotes about inside
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