Shaun White Quotes

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.

But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

I've had a pretty chequered past, you know, as a kid, as a troubled kid.

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

O heart, such disorganization!

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".