Top 250 David Lynch Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.”

— David Lynch

52. “A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.”

— David Lynch

53. “You don’t dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it’s not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly.”

— David Lynch

54. “Absurdity is what I like most in life.”

— David Lynch

55. “My movies are film-paintings – moving portraits captured on celluloid. I’ll layer that with sound to create a unique mood – like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she’d turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

— David Lynch

56. “What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.”

— David Lynch

57. “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.”

— David Lynch

58. “I find the joy of the ‘doing’ increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.”

— David Lynch

59. “Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.”

— David Lynch

60. “Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.”

— David Lynch

61. “Individual peace is the unit of world peace.”

— David Lynch

62. “Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.”

— David Lynch

63. “I’m lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don’t know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there’s something that can come out of experimentation. It’s somewhat unsettling, but it’s a hopeful thing in a way. I’ve been here before, lots of times.”

— David Lynch

64. “I love child things because there’s so much mystery when you’re a child.”

— David Lynch

65. “I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.”

— David Lynch

66. “I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.”

— David Lynch

67. “Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.”

— David Lynch

68. “I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love – to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.”

— David Lynch

69. “Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you’re born.”

— David Lynch

70. “This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.”

— David Lynch

71. “Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.”

— David Lynch

72. “Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.”

— David Lynch

73. “I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

— David Lynch

74. “I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.”

— David Lynch

75. “I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.”

— David Lynch

76. “Death in my mind isn’t a finality. There’s a continuum: It’s like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it’s a new day.”

— David Lynch

77. “My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.”

— David Lynch

78. “Desire for an idea is like bait. When you’re fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.”

— David Lynch

79. “In the world there’s a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.”

— David Lynch

80. “Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.”

— David Lynch

81. “Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it’s not against any religion, it’s for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what walk of life. If you’re a human being, it will work for you. And you will be very glad you found this technique and took advantage of it.”

— David Lynch

82. “Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.”

— David Lynch

83. “There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.”

— David Lynch

84. “The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.”

— David Lynch

85. “Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.”

— David Lynch

86. “Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.”

— David Lynch

87. “I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn’t honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.”

— David Lynch

88. “Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that’s where we are all headed whether we know it or not.”

— David Lynch

89. “Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything.”

— David Lynch

90. “Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there’s comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.”

— David Lynch

91. “You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it’s intense. It’s an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything.”

— David Lynch

92. “The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.”

— David Lynch

93. “One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, ‘let’s not do these things anymore – let’s have fun.’”

— David Lynch

94. “A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.”

— David Lynch

95. “In Hollywood, more often than not, they’re making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.”

— David Lynch

96. “Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.”

— David Lynch

97. “With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.”

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

99. “I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it’s going to be over. It’s not that way; it’s so energetic. That’s where all the energy and creativity is.”

— David Lynch

100. “I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.”

— David Lynch