Gregory David Roberts Quotes

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

There is too much hate in the world; too much hurt.

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.