487 Quotes by David Lynch

The mantra that you’re given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

You’re right on the money with that. We’re all like detectives in life. There’s something at the end of the trail that we’re all looking for.

The artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don’t have to suffer in their lives.

He whose happiness is within, whose contentment is within, whose light is all within, that yogi, being one with Brahman, attains eternal freedom in divine consciousness. BHAGAVAD-GITA.

Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.

Building a set is like building a place, but it’s a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I’m off into the darkness somewhere.

Everybody’s got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

The concept of absurdity is something I’m attracted to.