Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

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

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

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.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

You have a book like 'The Shining,' where the hotel is scary - but scarier because it's the haunted house of Jack Torrance's heart.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.

When you're at war with yourself, you will go under.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.