Quotes About Fighting Your Own Demons

#1. Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

Charles Bukowski

#3. The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

Siobhan Dowd

#4. There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

Robert Hilburn

#5. My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.

Xavier Dolan

#6. The soldier in the portrait had been a respected and admired officer...
The man he had become was fighting a different battle now. He had his demons, just as she had her ghosts.

Marguerite Kaye

#7. We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.

Yip Man

#8. I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.

Bruce Forsyth

#9. Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

Bell Hooks

#10. I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.

Rebecca Ferguson

#11. She was fighting armies of demons which swirled through her mind and there was no way i could cross over into her nightmares and fight alongside her and bring her back.

Kiran Nagarkar

#12. Angels and demons are not mythical, they're real and are here, inside all of us, trying to dominate but only with our support. It's us who decides who we are. Fighting for good cause makes us hero and letting wrong things happen, makes us villain

Nikhil Kushwaha

#13. When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

Melissa Rosenberg

#14. I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt

Darynda Jones

#15. Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

Napoleon Hill

#16. I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

Bela Fleck

#17. And in the end, he would become a memory, pressed in my heart like a leaf in my book.

Jenny Han

#18. Reasons for cancellation order: 1. Baby-eating aquatic faerie equines do not exist.

Charles Stross

#19. The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them.

Solomon Woytowich

#20. The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!

Gwendolyn Brooks

#21. PSA16.11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Anonymous

#22. Be kind to people and don't judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.

Vashti Quiroz-Vega

#23. John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

Jim Cummings

#24. We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.

Bruce Springsteen

#25. Yeah, sorry for not being all Betty Bad Ass; fighting isn't exactly a requirement for jazz singers.

J.L. Vallance

#26. Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.

Pippa DaCosta

#27. I remember I used to watch 'Buffy,' and I'd be like, 'Ah man, I would kill to be on 'Buffy,' to be part of that little crime-solving team fighting demons and monsters.'

Craig Horner

#28. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me.

J.D. Salinger

#29. Thank you Robin Williams for showing the world that one man can make a difference in the lives of millions, while still fighting his own personal demons. You are missed, but never forgotten.

Steven Wolff

#30. Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!

Hiro Mashima

#31. The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves ... The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Harold Bloom

#32. I STOPPED FIGHTING MY INNER DEMONS. WE'RE ON THE SAME SIDE NOW.

Darynda Jones

#33. We should hope not for a colorblind society but instead for a world in which we can see each other fully, learn from each other, and do what we can to respond to each other with love.

Michelle Alexander

#34. I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

Joe Flanigan

#35. Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

Charles Stross

#36. I never studied on fighting demons, but that don't mean I aim to let this one defeat us. The dark ones have their share of limitations too.

Erik Bundy

#37. this burden weighs so heavily
when our demons we must carry
clinging to this fleeting breath
dying for a fighting chance

The Phantoms

#38. It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer