Pete Wentz Quotes

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

People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

You can't run away from yourself

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

One can run away from anything but oneself.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

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.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

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

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.

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

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.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.