Quotes About Self-destruction

Who can destroy iron but its own rust, and who can destroy a person but his own mind?

You can't stop killing yourself, If you can't stop hating yourself.

Self-righteousness and self-pity both lead to self-destruction.

The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage.

The Jacobin leaders were beset on many sides by enemies, both open and covert. But in the end the most dangerous and unforgiving enemies they faced were themselves. In choosing terror, they chose a path that led to self-destruction.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.

I myself am the apocalypse of which I speak.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

No species can withstand all the infinite factors to which it can be exposed. Homo sapiens is closer to mass death than other species of the same geographical distribution, largely because we hunt it ourselves.

Cuando un pueblo empieza a creer que el color de su piel o la forma de la nariz garantizan su futura preeminencia, están generalmente contribuyendo a cavar su propia tumba.

There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up. There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue with ease, when it was far more important to me to self-destruct than to admit I had a problem, let alone allow anyone to help.

Do not worry, my son. Humanity is already on a path to self-destruction. I am simply helping them along.

Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.

As she stared now at the magazine cover - an image of a black hole - she realised that's what she was. A black hole. A dying start collapsing in on itself.

As she stared at the magazine cover - an image of a black hole - she realized that's what she was. A black hole. A dying star, collapsing in on itself

Destruction always comes from within. It

It was the first time in as long as I could remember that hunger wasn't a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction. It was simply a way of being in love. Sometimes

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

Not to have known about this! That here, That nowhere else in the wasteful, wilful, Death-wishing world, here Röntgen focused his ray And the eye first saw right through the skin, So that now without knives we see what is wrong Or is going to be wrong. We still need a ray To coax the delicate wings from the commonplace husk And detect why the horde we are destroys itself.

he identified with the aggressor and took on the active role while the boys represented himself and became the passive victims. In my opinion, Simons committed suicide on a psychological level every time he killed one of those boys.

The dark side of the personality is selfish with latent suicidal tendencies of self-destruction.

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. "Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.