Ellen Hopkins Quotes

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

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

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

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

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.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

My demons are not that easy to shake.

Everyday the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work. Should I lie on the couch and watch a movie, or shuld I confront my personal demons?

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.