#Inner Conflict Quotes

“Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?”

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.”

“O constancy, be strong upon my side,Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.”

“I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.”

“Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.”

“The color of the king doth come and go,Between his purpose and his conscience,Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“I long for truth, and yetI cannot stay from thatMy better self disowns,For a man's attentionBrings such satisfactionTo the craving in my bones.”

“My wretched dragon is perplexed.”

“Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.”

“If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.”

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

“Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.”

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

“I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.”

“Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.”

“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”

“What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.”

“The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.”

“He has no worse enemy than himself.”

“Man is his own worst enemy.[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]”

“Man is his own worst enemy.”

“If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”

“No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.”

“A man has no enemy worse than himself.”

“The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.”

“Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.”

“two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.”

“You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.”

“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.”

“The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.”

“She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”

“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.”

“Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.”

“Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.”

“There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.”

“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”

“Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.”

“I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.”

“She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.”

“Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.”

“What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.”

“Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.”

“Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.”

“If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.”

“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”

“If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me”

“Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.”

“But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?”

“Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.”