Mohsin Hamid Quotes

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

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.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

In my madness I see your face in mine.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

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

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?