Quotes About Self-destruction

Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.

But to grieve; it's to die and be alive at the same time. The most absolute, overpowering experience you can feel, therefore. Sometimes I swear we weren't constructed to go through such a thing; it's too much - your body damn near self-destructs with all that heaving and surging.

I'm just saying that his card-burning would have meant far more, on the day he did it, if he hadn't already incinerated his life.

One of the unfortunate things about greed ... is that, in the end, it will consume itself.

Puede que la música proporcionara un espacio abierto para la experimentación, pero las más de las veces lo que encontré fue impostura, poses fotogénicas de tipos de éxito que asumían el papel de rebelde autodestructivo, pero por cada mártir había cien con la suficiente garantía de saber parar a tiempo y no estrellarse.

liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.

Stupidity and bigotry are their own worst enemies

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Women feel that when their power is greatest, they look their best, and that those are their happiest hours; they like power in men, and prefer the strongest even if it is a power that may be their own destruction. I am going to make an inventory of your desires in order to put the question at issue before you.

The head has its designated place in all creations. If by chance a nation allows its head to fall at its feet, sooner or later it is sure to discover that it has committed suicide.

Abusaba de la morfina, por angustiosa necesidad y por elegancia. Tenía treinta y siete años; era alta, con labios muy gruesos y encendidos, que humedecía sin cesar.

History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Some creatures live as stars do: burn hard and hot, feeding on those nearby but primarily upon themselves. Their lives an inferno and them happiest in that heat. Eating away at themselves until all that remains is appetite.

Reina sin reino, princesa sin súbditos, generosa son dinero, política sin causa, cristiana sin fe, artífice de su propia ruina. Sobre Cristina de Suecia

A wavering spirit may be easier wreck'd, Because 't is frailer, doubtless, than a stanch one; But when the latter works its own undoing, Its inner crash is like an earthquake's ruin.

Part of me is looking for a way to destroy myself." She pauses. "And now you are judging me. I can see it. In your eyes." "This is a safe space, Paisley. You should feel free to say anything here.

Of course, therapists aren't persuaders. We can't convince an anorexic to eat. We can't convince an alcoholic not to drink. We can't convince people not to be self-destructive, because for now, the self-destruction serves them. What we can do is try to help them understand themselves better and show them how to ask themselves the right questions until something happens — either internally or externally — that leads them to do their own persuading.

You wouldn't be twisting yourself into knots like this, Harry, if you didn't care. So? Monsters don't care, Michael said. The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.

Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.

It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

You either wise up or you kiss your family goodbye, and you go on to eventual self-destruction. ...But don't take your kids with you.