Roy Harper Quotes

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

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.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

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

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

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.

Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.