Quotes about Conflict

A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.

Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration.

You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.

I was fighting with Thoby on the lawn. We were pommelling each other with our fists. Just as I raised my fist to hit him, I felt: why hurt another person? I dropped my hand instantly, and stood there, and let him beat me. I remember the feeling. It was a feeling of hopeless sadness. It was as if I became aware of something terrible; and of my own powerlessness. I slunk off alone, feeling horribly depressed.

I know what loves trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted, I have been torn apart.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

But the woman who stood knitting looked up steadily, and looked the Marquis in the face.

My flesh and blood...when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. I discard it.

If you knew what a conflict goes on in the business mind, when the business mind is divided between good-natured impulse and business appearances, you would be amused, Mr. Darnay.

But the shadow of the manner of these Defarges was dark upon himself, for all that, and in his secret mind it troubled him greatly.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.