Self Destruction Quotes

94 Self Destruction quotes by 84 unique authors

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue… — Iris Murdoch
Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage. — Russell Brand
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. — Chuck Palahniuk
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction. — Albert Camus
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something… — Stephen Dobyns
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. — Suzanne Collins
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that… — Vladimir Nabokov
For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy… — Brennan Manning
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and… — Dan Simmons
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. — Jean-Paul Sartre
In order to understand, I destroyed myself. — Fernando Pessoa
The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction. — Douglas Hofstadter
Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction. — Brandon Mull
Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction. — Russell Brand
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction? — John Green
Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may… — Amish Tripathi
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. — Daniel Defoe
I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive. — Johnny Vegas
Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no… — Bernie Siegel
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a… — F. W. de Klerk
Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a… — Stephen Kinzer
The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons… — Hans Blix
Self-righteousness and self-pity both lead to self-destruction. — Tasneem Hameed
Jealousy,opens flood gate of self destruction. — DrAnil Kr Sinha
Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun. — Zoheb

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