Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.
I crawled in the bathroom, looked in the mirror and saw the devil. It was me.
My demons are not that easy to shake.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
My biggest enemy is typically me.
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.
There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
Every man is his own chief enemy.
It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...
How many of us have these demons or habits or things we don't like about ourselves and understand the loops that we're in and yet are unable to break out of them and create lasting change within ourselves?
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
Write about the thing that frightens you most.
Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
The biggest battle in life is with yourself
You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.
