David Wroblewski Quotes

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 may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

I think my worst enemy is me.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

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

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

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.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.