Self-Conflict Quotes

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

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

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

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

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

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.

Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.

When you're at war with yourself, you will go under.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

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

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.