Susan Minot Quotes

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

I do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to enter their minds that they might be engaged in a struggle or that there might be something to struggle with.

I've been through hell not totally unscathed, but I came out not too bad.

It may seem like I've gone from one show to the next, but it's been a roller coaster. I've had my share of lows.

My demons are not that easy to shake.

At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.

I'm the guy who come through a lot of hard patches. I've seen a lot of hardships.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.

That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.