Kristin Kreuk Quotes

I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

Protect me from what I want.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.