Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors - that's life.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

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

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Demons are demons, and if you have them, you can either put them away, exorcize them, or carry them with you.

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.

The soul has more diseases than the body.

I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.

We all have our demons, even if we say we don't.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

We all have our inner demons.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

You're always fighting the demons.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.

We all - if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don't always want to talk about or acknowledge.