D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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 Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

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

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

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

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.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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.'

The true success is the person who invented himself.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

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.