Internal Struggle Quotes

“You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head."

"Well, I live in my head.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Sometimes I feel I am crammed with demons.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“devouring myself and panicking”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

“The internal war you wage with yourself may not be seen by others, but is always felt by you!”
― Lorraine Nilon, Your Insight and Awareness Book: Your life is an expedition to discover the truth of yourself

“The greatest war we fight is the one within ourselves.”
― Eric Christopher Jackson

“I don’t know how much longer I can keep pretending. How long I can contain the storm I am becoming; the emotions pushed aside that grow and strengthen, clamoring for their release. I can resist only so much.

One day I won’t be able to fake a smile or weave a lie. One day I am going to explode.”
― Tabi Card, Spinner

“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

“He never said, What if I go home, and all of it is ash? But I saw the thought in him, living like a second body, and feeding in the dark.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The most dangerous grave is the one you carry alive.”
― Pierre Lagrenat

“Who keeps chawing at a man but a man's own self?”
― Sheila Watson, The Double Hook