Troy Dumais Quotes

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

The wolf in him demanded he kick (the door) down and claim her. The man in him just wanted to hold her close and protect her. He’d never been so torn. So confused. So damned horny!

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Every man has a wild animal in him.

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.

Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.

Sometimes I feel evil!

My demons are not that easy to shake.

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?

You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that." And it was memories like that that made it so hard to comprehend this quest to kill him, even if he was a Strigoi. Yet...at the same time I had to destroy him. I needed to remember him as the man who'd loved me and held me in bed. I needed to remember that that man would not want to stay a monster.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

What does your gut tell you?" "My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each other