Morgan Freeman Quotes

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

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

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

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

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.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

You're always fighting the demons.

My demons are not that easy to shake.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.