Garth Brooks Quotes

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

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

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

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

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

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

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 don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

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.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

There never was a war that was not inward.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

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.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.