Top 250 David Lynch Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”

— David Lynch

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2. “I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.”

— David Lynch

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3. “True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.”

— David Lynch

4. “Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”

— David Lynch

5. “When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.”

— David Lynch

6. “The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.”

— David Lynch

7. “The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.”

— David Lynch

8. “In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent.”

— David Lynch

9. “Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”

— David Lynch

10. “The world is as you are.”

— David Lynch

11. “We only dream of images we already have inside of us.”

— David Lynch

12. “Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.”

— David Lynch

13. “We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”

— David Lynch

14. “Achievement is its own reward.”

— David Lynch

15. “The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.”

— David Lynch

16. “Mankind was not meant to suffer – bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.”

— David Lynch

17. “Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.”

— David Lynch

18. “New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.”

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

20. “There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.”

— David Lynch

21. “When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.”

— David Lynch

22. “The more you meditate the better life gets.”

— David Lynch

23. “I just like going into strange worlds.”

— David Lynch

24. “If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.”

— David Lynch

25. “My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.”

— David Lynch

26. “Music deals with time and timing. It’s so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it’s critical, so critical. And if it’s not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.”

— David Lynch

27. “See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There’s really nothing to be afraid of.”

— David Lynch

28. “Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you’re filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.”

— David Lynch

29. “We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I’ve always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.”

— David Lynch

30. “Don’t fight the darkness. Don’t even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes.”

— David Lynch

31. “All my movies are about strange worlds that you can’t go into unless you build them and film them. That’s what’s so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.”

— David Lynch

32. “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.”

— David Lynch

33. “Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.”

— David Lynch

34. “Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that – infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace.”

— David Lynch

35. “But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you’ll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.”

— David Lynch

36. “Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It’s like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.”

— David Lynch

37. “When you sleep, you don’t control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I’ve made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.”

— David Lynch

38. “Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.”

— David Lynch

39. “It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.”

— David Lynch

40. “Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.”

— David Lynch

41. “There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.”

— David Lynch

42. “Sometimes film kills the room to dream.”

— David Lynch

43. “Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.”

— David Lynch

44. “Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.”

— David Lynch

45. “Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.”

— David Lynch

46. “You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.”

— David Lynch

47. “We’re like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it’s like a light; it affects the environment.”

— David Lynch

48. “Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.”

— David Lynch

49. “Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn’t even exist. It’s kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.”

— David Lynch

50. “Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.”

— David Lynch