Billy Wilder Quotes

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

Lord deliver me from myself.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

God defend me from myself.

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

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

I am my best enemy.

I think my worst enemy is me.