Mental Conflict Quotes

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

I often cannot believe the things I do.

I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.

Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and to be good but pornography exerts a strong force on you, and one way to get further away from it would be to immerse yourself in a strong religious system.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself