Inner Struggle Quotes

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James Baldwin
“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

Ashly Lorenzana
“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

James Baldwin
“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

Charlotte Brontë
“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

Karen Horney
“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]

Stasia Ward Kehoe
“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

George MacDonald
“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

Maria Popova
“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

Mohsin Hamid
“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

“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

Richelle E. Goodrich
“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

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

Rui Figueiredo
“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

Dean F. Wilson
“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

Toby R. Beeny
“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