Live Inside Quotes

#1. We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.

Frederick Lenz

#2. There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

Charles Simic

#3. Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

Elizabeth Hand

#5. I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. Like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourselves upto it and there's no stopping your heart.

Carroll Bryant

#7. Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Paul Auster

#9. If I could, I would bottle your laugh and drink it so that the feeling you give me would forever live inside.

Andrea Michelle

#10. To read is to live inside a new world...

R.L. Henry

#11. Unfortunately most magicians are immune to their own magic. We see behind the veil, we live inside the nuts and bolts, the element of surprise is lost on us. But we can help each other.

Menna Van Praag

#12. I have no idea. I get involved because I think there's value in the project and because I love the character that is presented to me. I love the opportunity to examine a character, and to have him examine me, live inside me and move my hands. I love that. It's irresistible. It's a drug.

Donald Sutherland

#13. I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Angelina Jolie

#14. ...and I wondered what it felt like to live inside such disloyal skin.

Tayari Jones

#15. There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

Frederick Lenz

#16. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.

Rachel Cohn

#17. If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

Jonathan Raban

#18. Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.

Chuck Wendig

#19. You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world.

Anne Roiphe

#20. I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

Shai Agassi

#21. This is the moment I realize that our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.

A. Zavarelli

#22. Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.

Neal Pollack

#23. Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

Masashi Kishimoto

#24. Stories that are
so vivid
so real
I could live inside of them

Kelsey Sutton

#25. We can't take or receive feedback if we are incapable of or uninterested in hearing from outside sources. We can't recognize opportunities - or create them - if instead of seeing what is in front of us, we live inside our own fantasy.

Ryan Holiday

#26. He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. She was going ahead.

Barbara Kingsolver

#27. I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Pat Conroy

#28. It always amazes me how it is so easy to appear one way to the people around you but to live inside as someone else entirely.

K.L. Slater

#29. How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

William Lyon Phelps

#30. Well, that's the tackiest color I've ever seen, and we'll have half the town talking about us, but if it can lift May's heart like that, I guess she aught to live inside it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#31. It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

David Lynch

#32. Oh, it was a cousin of pain - a kissing cousin even - but Dylan didn't have a name for the sensation that made him want to live inside that ache. Maybe he'd just call it Bob.

Lyn Gala

#33. Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to the anxiety of What Next, but to just observe.

Shannon Hale

#34. Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

Sarah Addison Allen

#35. How can I be spying if I live inside you?" Rabbit asked.

Mark Andrew Poe

#36. Could never explain it to anyone, the way a fear can live inside you. The way it dictates how you think and how you act, what you say, what you don't dare say.

Nora Roberts

#37. Live inside the moment, not taking pictures to save it, cause if the moment is worthwhile, memory's never been faded

Myself

#38. It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

Meg Rosoff

#39. There is absolutely nothing like love for showing how many different people can live inside one skin.

Doris Lessing

#40. When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Joyce Meyer

#41. The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas ... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

Laozi

#42. When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

Twyla Tharp

#43. 'Maze Runner' is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers.

Jacob Latimore

#44. And I want the heart. I do. I don't care if it's black with despair and riddled with rot. I'd live inside the bits of him that are barely functioning, if I could. I'd spend the rest of my days trying to piece him back together, if he'd let me.

Charlotte Stein

#45. Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question.

Jacob Nordby

#46. The human body lives in the mind of one who possesses a human body, and to live inside the human body possessed of the mind that perceives another human body is to live in a world of others.

Paul Auster

#47. How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right? ... What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside of a body where He can't see out through the windows, and He can't hear out the ears?

Frederick K. C. Price

#48. Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

Christy Hall

#49. That ... you don't want to see, because it isn't a physical realm
because, Light and Darkness ... they live inside of us.
Matt, The Ending

Alexandra Lanc

#50. Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.

Tina Brown

#51. I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Amen.

Aimee Bender

#52. The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.

Kameron Hurley

#53. Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

Colum McCann

#54. Everyone has their dreams. I don't write my dreams down; they just live inside of me.

Gracie Gold

#55. I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#56. People feeling the need to live inside of Faraday cages is a sad reflection on modern society that humans are devolving into living inside of safe spaces.

Steven Magee

#57. Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Frederick Buechner

#58. One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

Lorrie Moore

#59. If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins.

Ralph Fletcher

#60. And maybe the black slug will always live inside of me. Maybe I'll always have bad days where the heaviness seems unbearable. But as cheesy as it sounds, maybe the good days will make it worth getting through the bad ones.

Jasmine Warga

#61. Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again.

Robert Anton Wilson

#62. Many people do not think very often about what they think about. They just let their thoughts live inside their head, without observing or questioning them.

Henry Cloud

#63. Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.

Paul David Tripp

#64. 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

#65. And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

Howard Thurman

#66. Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

Bruce Coville

#67. I want to mark you, and I want to own you. I want to fucking live inside you.

Annabel Joseph

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

Aimee Bender

#69. He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.

Mark Helprin

#70. Some of the nicest people I've never met live inside my computer.

Andrew Southwood

#71. One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

Tove Jansson

#72. Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

A.S. King

#73. If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

Laozi

#74. If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

Drew Barrymore

#75. If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?

Meg Howrey

#76. The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.

Barry Lopez

#77. Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

John Green

#78. In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside

Ernesto Neto

#79. No, you don't have to live inside my head. For every, just, insanely stupid thing I do or say, there are like fifty even worse ones that I just barely avoid doing or saying, just out of dumb luck.

Jesse Andrews

#80. I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.

Cameron Dokey

#81. The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

#82. I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes,

Jason Mraz

#83. We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.

Frederick Lenz

#84. We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Catherynne M Valente

#85. We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.

Umberto Eco

#86. Josh grins. It's wide and relieved and reveals a rarely seen pair of dimples. I could live inside those dimples for the rest of my life.

Stephanie Perkins

#87. Everyone knew the truth, but the truth didn't live inside them the same way it did for us.

Alexandra Bracken

#88. You have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you, because the present may be all you've got.

Amanda Howells

#89. I wanted the camera to actually observe the people who come from the outside to live inside a country, instead of fantasizing about them. Also, I wanted to say the sum of who we become is thanks to the people we meet. I wanted to make a positive film.

Danielle Arbid

#90. I continue to live inside a dichotomy: what was and what shall be. The pain in my skull is me trying to mesh the two.

Chila Woychik

#91. With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

Mary Pope Osborne

#92. You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion. She motioned to our virtual surroundings.

Ernest Cline

#93. This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

Walker Percy

#94. Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.

Per Petterson

#95. I will live inside this hope until the very last grain of sand falls.

Sarah Fine

#96. Don't be angry," the Bard said. "Most people live inside a cage of their own expectations. It makes them feel safe. The world's a frightening place full of glory and wonder and, as we've both discovered, danger. Flying isn't for everyone.

Nancy Farmer

#97. Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.

Charles Yu

#98. I live inside God's dream for me. I don't try to tell God what I'm supposed to do ... God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#99. Haunt me,
my little ghost,
Posses me
Live inside me,
And scare away my sins
Until there's nothing left.
But You.

Nyrae Dawn

#100. 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