Quotes About Self-destruction

Death is the meaning of life, the race against oblivion; man being the only animal who is conscious that he will one day die; there lies the seed of self-destruction, greed for more, even if only to be remembered a short time longer than others, as if it mattered to the other walking dead.

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

And, as an adult, you have the freedom and the access to indulge in much greater forms of self-destruction than a two-year-old could ever have. You can drink and use drugs. You can smoke. You can be promiscuous. You can kill yourself if you want to, run into the streets at night, choose to eat everything in sight, or starve yourself. It's dangerous when the raw black-and-white emotions of a child are harbored in an adult's mind and body.

You make to die You are the dead You the assassin of yourself

poisoned myself with cigarette smoke

What had seemed Bohemian was now Babylonian; what had begun as openness was now exhibitionism; the porn merchants had worked out that there was more money in joyless guilt than in guiltless joy, and the only freedom celebrated in these littered streets was the one civil liberty that civilised societies never denied their citizens – their right to seek degradation and self-destruction any which way they liked.

Apropo, cum preferati, autodistrugerea prin lipsa cunoasterii sau prin acumularea cunoasterii de sine?

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.

Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Now Violet had let herself go until she could barely make it out of the house to buy her Oreos and booze. But if you looked closely, beneath the folds of flesh ravaged by bitterness and drink, you could see the lovely creature she had been, and what she had been then was just as bitter and vindictive as what she was now.

I am dreaming of the funeral of the world, watching it go by carried in an urn reduced to ashes and followed by a horde of mourners, a million abreast, across the broadest lands and all chanting together: We are dead, we have killed ourselves. We are beyond rescue. What you see is not us but your thoughts of us, and I who am observing in terror of it being true hope not to have to wake up, so that I may let myself discount it as a dream.