Inside Us Quotes

223 quotes by 173 authors

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us… — C.S. Lewis
[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that… — C.S. Lewis
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that… — Sue Miller
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us… — Paulo Coelho
We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we… — Jane Yolen
Itâ€™s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. Thereâ€™s a whole commotion… — Jerry Spinelli
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment,… — Laura Esquivel
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. — Stephen King
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs… — Robert Kiyosaki
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. — J M Coetzee
Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when… — Dan Brown
we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle… — Paulo Coelho
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like… — Franz Kafka
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged… — Muriel Barbery
Inside us all are pieces of that which makes the neagitve. Demons are neither good nor bad. Like you, they have many facets. It is… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them. — P. C. Cast
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting… — Barack Obama

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