Hermann Hesse Quotes

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 bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

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

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.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

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

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

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

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

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

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

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.

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 am my best enemy.

The biggest challenge is the fight you have on your own.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.