Quotes About Self-destruction

We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference

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Herr Bosch was purple nosed; the oxygen which by rights belonged to the veins of his face had for years gone to feed the sharp blue flame of all that liquor.

I believe, my dear Erienne," he began solicitously, the humor in his voice disguised by a disapproving frown, "that you either have a penchant for self-destruction… or you are somehow testing me… or my ability to protect you. I think this may bear further investigation." -Christopher

This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction (obliteration).

Tem coisa mais autodestrutiva do que insistir sem fé nenhuma?

Do not throw yourself against what has become, enraged or bent on destruction. What will you put in its place? Do you not know that if you are successful in destroying what has become, you will then turn the will of destruction against yourself? But anyone who makes destruction their goal will perish through self-destruction. Much rather respect what has become, since reverence is a blessing.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.

I hate solitude, but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.

You just want tae fuck up on drugs so that everyone'll think how deep and fucking complex you are. It's pathetic, and fucking boring.

The problem is that Tom refuses tae accept ma view that society cannae be changed tae make it significantly better, or that ah cannae change tae accommodate it. Such a state ay affairs induces depression on ma part, aw the anger gets turned in. That's what depression is, they say. However, depression also results in demotivation. A void grows within ye. Junk fills the void, and also helps us tae satisfy ma need tae destroy masel, the anger turned in bit again.

Can a condemned tribe lead itself to its own burial?

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask. "Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.

Somos seres inconstantes y estúpidos con mala memoria y un don para la autodestrucción.

He lives alone, no wife or children, most of his waking hours drunk. I don't want to end up like that.

He's sitting alone at the kitchen table, a half-emptied bottle of white liquor in one fist, his knife in the other. Drunk as a skunk.

Oh, ahora no. Ahora estamos en ese dulce periodo en el que todos están de acuerdo en no repetir los recientes horrores. Sin embargo, esta coincidencia colectiva no suele durar. Somos seres inconstantes y estúpidos con mala memoria y un don para la autodestrucción. Pero ¿quién sabe? Quizá esta vez sea la buena, Katniss.

Pour l'instant nous sommes dans cette période bénie où chacun s'accorde à reconnaître que les horreurs récentes ne devraient jamais se répéter. Mais la mémoire collective est généralement de courte durée. Nous sommes des êtres versatiles, stupides, amnésiques et doués d'un immense talent d'autodestruction.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction