Russell Brand Quotes

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

I always need to clear up what I do. With everyone else, there is no problem, but with me, all hell is raised up.

I think my worst enemy is me.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

God save me from myself.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.