Quotes About Self-division

This was it, the big moment: the corpse of his chief enemy, the ruins of his creator, the body of his dead father; the great weight of all that was unsaid and would never have been said; the pressure to say it now, when there was nobody to hear, and to speak also on his father's behalf, in an act of self-division that might fissure the world and turn his body into a jigsaw puzzle. This was it.

It was a world of half-light in which they lived and to which they brought the better parts of themselves--so that, after a while, the outer world where people walked and spoke, where there was change and continual movement, seemed to them false and unreal. Their lives were sharply divided between the two worlds, and it seemed to them natural that they should live so divided.

Sometimes in life, and commonly in literature, desire undermines our resolve, drives us to obsession, illness, madness, or even death; or splits us into self-division, or contradictory moral evaluation, or wrecks us with the ambivalence of love and hate fused in the same desire.

She found she had become two different people. Each one spoke differently, dressed differently, and ate different things, laughed at different jokes, had different interests. If one had met the other, they probably wouldn't have liked each other.

A man cannot split himself in two, Will.' He paused. 'One half will die, sooner or later.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage—the state of being at war with oneself.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

He started arguing with himself like he was two people.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

The most damaging legacy of the West has been its power to decide who our enemies are, turning us not only against our own people, like North and South Korea, but turning me against myself.

Think about this, the people gave birth to me cannot stop hating each other enough. What does that tell you about me? Half of my genes must be fighting with other half, no wonder I am so fucking messed up.

Recognizing the self-division of the other doesn't reduce everyone to sameness but eliminates the possibility for anyone's hierarchical elevation above another. It is a philosophy of universal equality through the split of every subject from itself.

A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all.