Quotes About Self-destruction

the man who seeks intoxication, in whatever form, has given up hope except in oblivion.

We won't rescue humanity from self-destruction without a dramatic change in how we invest for our future energy needs.

I'd have to run away to New York and be a hooker and eat a pound of heroin and die.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

the free rights of men to destroy themselves through ignorance.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

Quien propicia el poder de otro, labra su propia ruina".

Longtemps, mon seul but dans la vie était de m'autodétruire. Puis, une fois, j'ai eu envie de bonheur. C'est terrible, j'ai honte, pardonnez-moi : un jour, j'ai eu cette vulgaire tentation d'être heureux. Ce que j'ai appris depuis, c'est que c'était la meilleure manière de me détruire.

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves.

jak si? cz?owiek uchleje, to w Kersku te? jest Klimand?aro

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them." Sara looked directly into his eyes. "If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can't erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.

Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves.

It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

The daemon is the incorporation of that tormenting leaven which impels our being (otherwise quiet and almost inert) towards danger, immoderation, ecstasy, renunciation and even self-destruction.

orator Isocrates: "Democracy destroys itself

To seek pain as a form of salvation is to destroy oneself.

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

always courting disaster to experience the biggest high. I'd been living the deranged life. I felt so nihilistic, yet why hadn't I just tuned in and dropped out? Instead, I followed Jim Morrison's credo, the credo of Coleridge and, at one point, Wordsworth, the credo of self-discovery through self-destruction I so willfully subscribed to until this moment:

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

I hate it, find it hideous, loathsome. I have built it up to a devouring, malicious monster. I am letting it ruin my whole life. My reason is leaving me, and I want to get out of this.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

Evil will destroy itself.