Quotes About Inner-conflict

You are the jailer and the jailed, You the impaler and the one that your own Million-fleshed self in dreams by night do hold in thrall and now at noon must kill.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

We all mine and undermine and landmine ourselves, in our own ways, in our own time, Sophia thinks.

Curiously, people resist the noble aspects of their shadow more strenuously than they hide the dark sides. To draw the skeletons out of the closet is relatively easy, but to own the gold in the shadow is terrifying. It is more disrupting to find that you have a profound nobility of character than to find out you are a bum.

No, when the fight begins within himself,A man's worth something.

He's hunted enough guys to know that their own heads can be their worst enemies. They start seeing things that aren't there, then, worse, not seeing things that are. They worry and worry, and chew on their own insides, until, when you do track them down, they're almost grateful. By this time, they've been killed so many times in their minds that the real thing is a relief.

I beat myself up enough with this fight club in my head that I know what can happen if I invite new members.

The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought.

There are very real forces that whisper lying innuendos that assault your mind, your will, and your emotions in the hope of causing you to turn on yourself and then to turn on others.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

But the worst enemy you can encounter will always be yourself.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Because he thinks he is a thief! Jethro cried. He thinks he stole what he is. He's fighting his own shadow and his own heart.

Kendini de seviyordu... Kendini de öldürmesi gerekiyordu...

I found myself burning up, mentally. Fucking weakling, I told myself, fucking loser. I started to spiral, not just hating myself, but hating myself for hating myself.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

What is it that we need to overcome in order to truly be "Ourselves"?

Each of us has a terrorist inside, a mad impulse to abandon that which is rightfully ours, to blow ourselves to smithereens.

man who reviews his own life, as I do mine, in going on here, from page to page, had need to have been a good man indeed, if he would be spared the sharp consciousness of many talents neglected, many opportunities wasted, many erratic and perverted feelings constantly at war within his breast, and defeating him.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Even though we hate some of the things we do or feel, we hate them only because we love ourselves. We feel we are unworthy of such bad stuff.

You may find your best friend or your worst enemy in yourself

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.