Brian J. Smith Quotes

You have a book like 'The Shining,' where the hotel is scary - but scarier because it's the haunted house of Jack Torrance's heart.

If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?" "I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

Part of me was saying if you say that she's alive, what would everybody think? What are you going to tell everybody who followed you, who you've inspired? What are you going to say? I was scared. That's the truth. I was just scared, and I didn't know what to do.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.