Inner Struggle Quotes

“I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Everyone has a unique problem of their own, an issue that follows them throughout life and never goes away. You discover it early and go on to struggle with it for the rest of your life, almost until it eventually becomes an old enemy that you lose the will to fight or hate anymore. And just as every person has their own void, their own haunt or their own unanswered question...they also have the power to turn it into a legacy every bit as profound as they make it.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“His touch could never fail to make me feel desire; yet his hot, sweet breath also made me want to vomit.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“The central inner conflict is one between the constructive forces of the real self and the obstructive forces of the pride system, between healthy growth and the drive to prove in actuality the perfection of the idealized self.”
― Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

“जब मान्छेको आफ्नो कमजोरी सामुन्ने आएर जिस्काउन थाल्छ; तब न त स्वीकार गर्ने साहस हुन्छ, न त नकार्ने हिम्मत !”
― Sanu Sharma, विप्लवी [Biplavi]

“When one's own weaknesses come to the fore and start tormenting them, they have neither the courage to accept them nor the strength to deny them.”
― Sanu Sharma, विप्लवी [Biplavi]

“Maybe he, like me,
is engaged in the kind of unspoken rebellion
you don't want to perform too brightly
since you're never certain
anyone in your family will notice
your darkened eyes, skeleton shoes, tousled hair,
patchy attendance record.
You may be sacrificing body and soul
on a ghostly battlefield, fighting across a divide
seen by no one
but you.”
― Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

“A divided mind cannot conquer a united soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before.

One day when these questions were fighting in his heart, all at once it seemed as if a soundless voice in the depth of his soul replied, "Thy soul, however it became known to itself, is from the pure heart of God."

And with the thought, the horizon of his life began to clear.”
― George MacDonald, The Fisherman's Lady

“There is no limit to what you can do,when you focus on your strength.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams

“But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me to keep my distance.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You have not conquered anyone significant until you conquer yourself.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“People with DID often experience conflicting advice or opinions emanating from their alter personalities. Individual alter personalities may have coherent, consistent identities, but, taken as a group, the incompatible internal personalities generate an atmosphere of conflict as well as incoherence. As one patient described it, "Do you know how hard it is to get a hundred and four minds to come together to a single decision?”
― Marlene Steinberg, Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide

“However divided we may feel within ourselves, it is the sum total of our warring fractions that make us who we are—fragmentary but indivisible.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“Dark feelings churn inside me, weighing my spirit as if gray clouds were emptying their cold, drenching contents into my being. I have endured such a storm for seasons now; it has blurred into years of miserable existence. I wonder a desperate thought: when will the rains cease? For surely they must. And if by some cruel twist of nature a forbidding storm can rage eternal, might an outside gust be powerful enough to blow it all past? Say yes. Oh please, say yes! Blow ferociously! Do not leave me doomed to a life drenched in the darkest feelings.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Since the creation, people have been in a constant psychological struggle between their inner good and evil, between their demons and their angels, and between doing right and wrong.
Good and evil are present inside each person, and it’s up to each one to choose what to follow.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“Nature is the antidote for the chaos inside of us.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Tears cascaded freely, mirroring the tumultuous emotions swirling within. In that moment, Crinket was no hero; he was a vulnerable soul, burdened and scared, laid bare under the canopy of the ancient, silent trees. With his tear-streaked face tilted upwards, eyes closed, he whispered through choked sobs, “I don’t want to let anyone down, but I’m not sure I can carry this weight.”
― Rui Figueiredo, Gurgleyes: The Quest for Unity

“In such a fight, he thought he might be able to feel the demon in the man become more apparent, but his struggle seemed altogether human. To win this battle, Jacob thought he might have to instead find the demon in himself.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“He carried too much weight, a weight he was always mindful of, that must be present in his life at all times.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“The courage to try to tame your demons and understand that they are all you, beyond the will, desires, and expectations.”
― Raydrich Rocha, Consciência: Delírios e Galopes

“A coragem de tentar domar seus demônios e entender que todos eles são você, acima da vontade, dos desejos e das expectativas.”
― Raydrich Rocha, Consciência: Delírios e Galopes

“The greatest wars are not fought with swords, but with choices.”
― Dmytro Zyma, The Balance of Tora: A Battle Between Light and Darkness

“Each day I live, I breathe in death.”
― Khaled Ibrahim

“Each of us carries his Mexico and his United States within him, a dark and bloody frontier we dare to cross only at night.”
― Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo

“Our greatest enemy lives within us.”
― Saad Jatoi