Glen Hansard Quotes

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

We are sure to be losers when we argue with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

We are really the victims of our own problems.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I'm not fighting with myself.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.