Bryant H. McGill Quotes

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

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

It's really hard to watch yourself.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

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

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

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

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

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.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?