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3. “No banishment, indeed, to the South Pole, or to the summit of Mont Blanc, can separate us so entirely from our fellow creatures as a prolonged residence in the seclusion of a secret vice, that is to say of a state of mind that is different from theirs.”
Marcel Proust
Banishment, Vice, Mental State, Prolonged Seclusion, Isolation Depth, Inner Conflict
4. “Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Venerable One, I’m afraid it might befall me that my ego would be pacified and liberated only seemingly, only illusorily, that in reality it would survive and grow great, for then I would make the teaching, my discipleship, my love for you, and the community of the monks into my ego!” Hermann Hesse Liberation, Ego, Spirituality, Discipleship, Inner Conflict, Self Awareness
6. “There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.” Hermann Hesse Duality, Contentment, Self Acceptance, Identity, Inner Conflict, Human Nature
7. “For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. To be sure, he suffered from dread of many things, of madness, the police, insomnia, and also dread of death. But everything he dreaded he likewise desired and longed for at the same time. He was full of burning curiosity about suffering, destruction, persecution, madness and death.” Hermann Hesse Existentialism, Duality, Curiosity, Dread, Human Condition, Inner Conflict
9. “If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no other word but: dread. It was dread, dread and uncertainty, that I felt in all those hours of shattered childhood felicity: dread of punishment, dread of my own conscience, dread of stirrings in my soul which I considered forbidden and criminal.” Hermann Hesse Dread, Childhood, Soul, Emotional Turmoil, Inner Conflict, Psychological Burden
12. “Desire is impossible: it destroys its object. Lovers cannot be one, nor can Narcissus be two. Don Juan, Narcissus. Because to desire something is impossible, we have to desire what is nothing.” Simone Weil Desire Paradox, Love Analysis, Narcissus Reflection, Unattainable Desires, Inner Conflict, True Yearning
14. “A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again.” Simone Weil Mind, Captivity, Truth, Suffering, Self-deception, Inner Conflict
29. “A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez Existential Curiosity, Fear Of Death, Anxiety, Life’s Mysteries, Transformation, Inner Conflict
30. “It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez Past Annihilation, Emotional Destruction, Self-destruction, Time Passage, Inner Conflict, Unresolved
Inner Conflict Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “No banishment, indeed, to the South Pole, or to the summit of Mont Blanc, can separate us so entirely from our fellow creatures as a prolonged residence in the seclusion of a secret vice, that is to say of a state of mind that is different from theirs.”
Marcel Proust Banishment, Vice, Mental State, Prolonged Seclusion, Isolation Depth, Inner Conflict
4. “Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Venerable One, I’m afraid it might befall me that my ego would be pacified and liberated only seemingly, only illusorily, that in reality it would survive and grow great, for then I would make the teaching, my discipleship, my love for you, and the community of the monks into my ego!”
Hermann Hesse Liberation, Ego, Spirituality, Discipleship, Inner Conflict, Self Awareness
6. “There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.”
Hermann Hesse Duality, Contentment, Self Acceptance, Identity, Inner Conflict, Human Nature
7. “For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. To be sure, he suffered from dread of many things, of madness, the police, insomnia, and also dread of death. But everything he dreaded he likewise desired and longed for at the same time. He was full of burning curiosity about suffering, destruction, persecution, madness and death.”
Hermann Hesse Existentialism, Duality, Curiosity, Dread, Human Condition, Inner Conflict
9. “If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no other word but: dread. It was dread, dread and uncertainty, that I felt in all those hours of shattered childhood felicity: dread of punishment, dread of my own conscience, dread of stirrings in my soul which I considered forbidden and criminal.”
Hermann Hesse Dread, Childhood, Soul, Emotional Turmoil, Inner Conflict, Psychological Burden
12. “Desire is impossible: it destroys its object. Lovers cannot be one, nor can Narcissus be two. Don Juan, Narcissus. Because to desire something is impossible, we have to desire what is nothing.”
Simone Weil Desire Paradox, Love Analysis, Narcissus Reflection, Unattainable Desires, Inner Conflict, True Yearning
14. “A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again.”
Simone Weil Mind, Captivity, Truth, Suffering, Self-deception, Inner Conflict
29. “A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Existential Curiosity, Fear Of Death, Anxiety, Life’s Mysteries, Transformation, Inner Conflict
30. “It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Past Annihilation, Emotional Destruction, Self-destruction, Time Passage, Inner Conflict, Unresolved
