Quotes About Self-destruction

Sometimes we hunger for our own destruction.

he considered mankind a race of crazy half-monkeys, intent upon suicide.

Me encontraba en una deprimente película extranjera, con subtítulos escrritos a mano. Se me estaba yendo la cabeza, estaba perdiendo el norte. Una acumulación de fármacos pasados-ácido de adolescente, hierba de universitario, coca de adulto y alcohol- en una mezcla desaconsejable, unían sus fuerzas en un ataque de efectos retardados sobre mis neuronas, convirtiendo mi materia gris en espuma de afeitar.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

There are different ways to die. There's jumping off a roof and there's slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.

Kocham ciebie, cho? mnie zabijasz, lecz czy mog? przebaczy? Ci to, ?e zabijasz siebie?

No he sido yo quien ha roto tu corazón, te lo has roto tú misma, y al hacerlo has destrozado, de paso, él mío. Y la peor parte me toca a mí, porque aún tengo fortaleza. ¿Crees que me apetece vivir? ¿Qué clase de vida podrá ser la mía cuando tú...? ¡Oh, Dios mío! ¿Acaso te gustaría a ti vivir si te encerraran el alma en una tumba?

It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink.

Yo no te he destrozado el corazón; tú sola te lo has destrozado, y al hacerlo has destrozado también el mío

Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort - you deserve this. You have killed yourself.

If she'd learned anything about herself over the years it was that self-doubt inevitably led to self-destruction.

And like Mikhail, when he had slid from dance to drugs to the streets at the age of fifteen, she had lived and breathed a profession in which it was better to be high than even a pound above the minimum weight to sustain life.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Monopolies often turn inward and destroy themselves from the internal pressure.

I fear there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction

there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction.

It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

I'd like to save all my friends, but if someone is bent on self-destruction, there is only so much you can do. You can't shovel other people's shit for them, not unless they're willing to pick up a shovel and help.

There are some characters in this world who are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can appeal. For my part Justine always reminded me of a somnambulist discovered treading the perilous leads of a high tower; any attempt to wake her with a shout might lead to disaster. One could only follow her silently in the hope of guiding her gradually away from the great shadowy drops which loomed up on every side. But by some curious paradox it was these