James Dashner Quotes

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

I doubt myself a lot but go forward at full throttle anyway.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals.

Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.

I don't know if I had success or not. But I am afraid of myself. Why am I afraid of myself? I always feel - I don't know - weak in the sense of not having power and also power is a fleeting thing, here today, gone tomorrow.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.