Inside Quotes

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair -- Look at what's really there.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.

The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.

Dare to breach the surface and sink.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Darkness is just light turned inside out.”
― Beelzebub

“If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“We are all the gods and devils, hiding under the human skin.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and live accordingly.”
― Grigoris Deoudis

“My favourite outdoor activity is going back inside.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.”
― Vivian Amis

“The outside doesn't always match the inside.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“The true artist resides on the inside.
The outside is chaos, bondage and destruction.
The inside is peace, freedom, and creation.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Satisfied that there are no monsters but the ones I carry inside me.”
― Virginia Feito, Victorian Psycho

“You'll never fly in grace and dance as one,
If you don't get out of your comfort zone!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“It is important to know when to tune out of people, and when to tune into yourself.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The literary effect we call horror turns on the dissolution of boundaries, between the living and the dead, of course, but also, at the crudest level, between the outside of the body and everything that ought to stay inside.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“You are the part of the universe and universe is the part of you. You are inside the universe and universe is inside you.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“Once an abductor has you alone inside of an elevator, they can take you to any floor they want to, including the private service floors that may have no witnesses in them.”
― Steven Magee

“Student: Master, you told me that when you look outside, sometimes you see outside, sometimes you see inside! I thought about this a lot but I didn't understand anything! Master: If you have problems in your mind when you look outside, you will see your own problems, your own inside, not outside! The outer world truly appears before you only when your inner world is at peace!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is a landscape and an atmosphere inside: narratives waiting to unfold; moods to live through; feelings that enliven; thoughts that illuminate; memories; nostalgia; dreams; hopes; uncertainties; insecurities; fears; desires; passions; obsessions; the occasional calm; the turbulences; peace; joy. The journey within could be as exciting as a journey to an undiscovered world. There is a universe waiting to be known.”
― KRISHNA MURTHY ANNIGERI VASUDEVA RAO, FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“I like the rain. It makes me feel less guilty for huddling inside, away from everything and everyone else. I’m sure if I said that to someone, they’d think it’s weird.”
― Elizabeth Helen, Bonded by Thorns

“Even a circle has two sides an inside and an outside.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“Even a circle has two sides, an inside and an outside”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“The universe—or at least the sentient constituents of it—comes to know itself through hermeneutic mediation. Put more personally, we come to know—and even become—ourselves through interacting with the world. You would not be able
to recognize your own face if you had never seen it mirrored in a reflective surface or photographed.... Moreover, in very basic ways, we are permeable, such that with every breath and every meal we are constantly exchanging matter with our surroundings. All of this should begin to put pressure on the commonsense bifurcation between mental inside and physical outside.”
― Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm, Metamodernism: The Future of Theory

“Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight,
Out of the room that lets you feel secure.
Infinity is open to your sight.
Whoever you are.”
― Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon: Poems

“Do not hurt yourself to please others, and do not hurt others to please yourself. Let the love go in and out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“What sleeps inside us wants to wake us up.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The power they told you belongs to God has always been inside you.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“To be able to think outside the box, you need to first utilize what is in the box, at every corner and all the sides.”
― Dina Husseini