Emotional Struggle Quotes

"Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it – which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don’t know." "Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why" "I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim" "I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. If I abuse someone, I don't care; no one can say anything to me." "When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions." "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more" "Inner conflict is a result of an unsolved encounter between conflicting ideas, impulses, or motives" "Part of me feels like I've been striving for approval so hard I don't even know who I'm doing it for anymore" "I’ve been afraid of changing because I built my life around you." "The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." "Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it" "I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top" "Oh the mad coupling of hope and force in which we merged and despaired" "Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity" "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." "Maybe I'm just not as strong as I thought I was " "When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune" "Everyone can master a grief but he that has it." "Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart." "I can't let you go until I find peace"