Self Destructive Quotes

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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take… — Richard Russo
I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four… — John Rzeznik
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane. — Brandi Carlile
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing… — Ben Gibbard
The most self-destructive thought that any person can have Â is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her… — Roger Dawson
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate,… — Louis Zamperini
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. — Thom Gunn
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of… — Walter E. Williams
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! — John Keats
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans thinkâ€¦Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous… — Wendy Doniger
The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like… — Sophie Dahl
Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it.… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices. — Benjamin Carson
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily… — D. Patrick Miller
It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative. — Carl Froch
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if… — Robert M. Sapolsky
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories… — Lidia Yuknavitch
When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide… — John Lennon
For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst… — Renee Olstead
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore. — Karen O

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