Mickey Rourke Quotes

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.

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

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

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

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

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

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

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.

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.

If someone asks me to play myself, I've got problems. There's more pain involved.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

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

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

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

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

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

I'm not fighting with myself.

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.

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

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