Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

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

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

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.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

We all have our inner demons.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

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.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

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.

I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls.