Conflict Quotes

“I knew from the Count of Monte Cristo that prisoners’ minds could deteriorate. Years of confinement could send a man insane.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

“Doubtless Princess Juliana intended for me to overhear her comment on seeing Theodora in wedding regalia. “She’s like wisteria: beautiful in a vulgarly decorative way, cloyingly scented and an unstoppable climber.” Her eyes met mine and she made a motion as if scribbling in the air, daring me to write down her words.”
― Carol Strickland, The Eagle and the Swan

“...if you are kinder even during conflicts, your partner will likely cooperate more too. It's a win/win.”
― Julie Schwartz Gottman, Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

“When you're in love, you're at war.”
― Natalie Haynes, Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

“I do not know when I am being what they want me to be and when I am myself.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“You have to love everyone, not only women, but men as well. You don't have to have sex with a man, but you have to be able to relate to his separate physicality. If you don't, you will never be able to fight him, to drive our fist through his chest, to snap his neck, to gouge out his eyes”
― Bruce Lee

“Some people just bring out the wrong colors in each other.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“If you don’t want to take something lying down, don’t lay down in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In a conflict between peoples, each side feels the pain of its losses more strongly than it does the pain of the other side. Each side mourns its own dead, not the dead of its enemies. This is not deliberate or malicious disregard—it is natural and understandable. Consequently, each side feels and displays elemental gratitude toward those who risked their lives to defend their compatriots.”
― Hillel Cohen, Year Zero of the Arab Israeli Conflict 1929

“Think of conflict like the bill for a delicious meal at a restaurant: the only way for it to be zero is not to order the meal.”
― Brooks Arthur C.

“When men feel small they are dangerous.”
― Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

“Un enemigo distante no es un enemigo; es un adversario.”
― Amir Obregon Vargas

“A distant enemy isn’t really an enemy—it’s just an adversary.”
― Amir Obregon Vargas

“Mind your own damn business.”
― Tim Walz

“She doesn't care about social hierarchies, or social etiquette. If she disagrees with you, your friends or your family, you're likely to hear about it.”
― Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

“We'll never get to discover other life forms or other life forms that know we exist will never visit this galaxy because we still bicker over simple stuff... Damn... Conflict, jealousy and pettiness over every minute thing instead of clapping and appreciating one another... Building one another.... All we posses is self entitlement because we think we are at the centre of everything... Some light years away from now, yes light years... If I ever make it back, I'd want to witness how humanity has progressed. The kind of vitriol over things people shouldn't sweat over is so retrogressive!”
― Robert Kodingo

“C'est plein de disputes un bonheur.”
― Jean Anouilh, Antigone

“And when the rush fades,
we are left hollow,
staring at the wreckage of who we were.
The mirror reveals
no rebel, no hero,
only a shadow of a self
we barely remember.

Still, we return.
The cycle repeats,
not because we do not see the cost,
but because the void terrifies us more.
Better the burn,
than the weight of the fall.”
― Nyx Thorn, VERSES OF THE BROKEN: Echoes From A Fractured Mind

“When we let go of the words that are meant to divide us, even the harshest disagreement can become a space of clarity, rather than conflict.”
― Marc Kandalaft

“Truth is the flawless diamond crushed into shape by the friction of our conflicting beliefs.”
― Stewart Stafford

“You need to get off me." But I clung to him a little longer.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“To the river, the stone is an obstacle; to the stone, the river is erosion.
Perspective births both truth and conflict.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“While he was yet young, when he wrote his story, Enough, Turgenev saw that something terrible hung over his life. He saw, but did not get frightened, although he understood that in time he ought to become frightened, because life without a continual inner disturbance would have no meaning for him.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“The danger of becoming trapped in conflict is that we lose perspective.”
― Pope Francis, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

“To love someone is to fight a different kind of war.”
― Ciaran MacLeod, The Sword and the Hearth

“A story with a problem is like a person with a problem: interesting.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“In the reverberations of their shouts and whispers, we recognize our own internal struggle.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The Council of Gods

“Elegance gives way to pettiness when each person claims reason for themselves in situations where everyone is wrong.”
― Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

“[Presence] will allow you to approach stressful situations without anxiety, fear, and dread. Instead, you will go forth with the knowledge that you did everything you could do. That you accurately and fully represented yourself and your abilities. That you showed them who you really are. That you showed yourself who you really are.”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“An eye looking for only that is green, and a tooth looking for what it easy to chew.”
― Marcus Aurelius