Quotes About Self-destruction

Creativity and self-destruction sometimes come in the same package.

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

He ran across the main hall and down galleries full of things that had somehow survived through all the millennia since the Ancients destroyed themselves in that terrible flurry of orbit-to-earth atomics and tailored-virus bombs called the Sixty Minute War.

I think there are people with the genes for being natural performers. Sometimes they go haywire and destroy themselves because of it and because they have no order in their lives.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner ... and that is the Afrikaner himself.

To try to keep Bimala as a garland round my neck, would have meant keeping a weight hanging over my heart. Have I not been praying with all my strength, that if happiness may not be mine, let it go; if grief needs must be my lot, let it come; but let me knot be kept in bondage. To clutch hold of that which is untrue as though it were true, is only to throttle oneself. May I be saved from such self-destruction.

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiastically they drive you to your own destruction: even the kindest ones, the ones that are most loving, can rarely have your interests truly at heart, because usually they are advising you from within lives of greater security and greater confinement, where escape is not a reality but simply something they dream of sometimes.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

But disappointment in pleasure is a completely different thing. While pain can often be seen as a means to a greater end, pleasure is seen as an end in itself. And when pleasure has run its course, a sense of despondency can creep into one's soul that may often lead to self-destruction. Pain can often be temporary, but disappointment in pleasure gives rise to emptiness—not just for a moment, but for life.

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. But I don't want to set out to influence people. I don't want to set out to change the world in any self-conscious way. That way leads to self-destruction; that way, you're pontificating, and that's dangerous and it's boring - you're going to put people right to sleep.

namely, never interfere when your enemies are busily engaged in flagrant acts of self-destruction.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

you had to have a deep, mysterious soul to want to destroy yourself. The shallower you are, the safer. Colborne

To destroy evil we must destroy the being which evil inhabits, even if it is ourselves.

Biblionekormanten könnten niemanden ws antun, nicht mal sich selbst, obwohl sie ständig mit dem Tod, mit Mord und Selbstauslöschung kokettieren. Sie sind lediglich am Ritual der literarischen Trauer interessiert. Das ist vielleicht die poetische Form der Todessehnsucht.

O homem é a única espécie biológica que destruiu a sua própria função sexual natural e está doente em conseqüência disso.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within

We as a civilization are all too much like someone addicted to a drug that will kill if continued and kill if suddenly withdrawn.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself. It

my endless cramming felt a lot more like self destruction than any glue-sniffing I'd ever done;

Escape into self-destruction by all means; but not until your duty is done.

The more resistant we are to the oncoming chaos, the more we will be stuck in a constant struggle and are unable to move forward. One must embrace the chaos in open arms and once the self-destruction ensues, then self-development can follow. One can't get upset at the dying fields when he is constantly warring with the rain clouds