Quotes About Self-destruction

Some characters in the world are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can appeal.

El deseo destruye su objeto, destruyéndose a sí mismo en el proceso;

exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

Evil cannot be punished, but it is self-destructive.

Men often want to love, without managing to do so: they seek their own ruin without being able to attain it, and, if I can put it thus, they are forced against their will to remain free.

If you don't want to suffer you should tear yourself apart.

for self-destruction was always part of Alexander's calculation. Russian policy in these years was intelligently conceived and was executed with consistent purpose. It was very far removed indeed from Tolstoyan mythology.

He's hunted enough guys to know that their own heads can be their worst enemies. They start seeing things that aren't there, then, worse, not seeing things that are. They worry and worry, and chew on their own insides, until, when you do track them down, they're almost grateful. By this time, they've been killed so many times in their minds that the real thing is a relief.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

I used to believe there was a part of the human brain we couldn't quite excise, and its sole purpose was to encourage self-destruction. Someday, I thought, the guys working on the BRAIN Initiative would push aside a contour in the gray matter and find a pulsing, jet-black spot. They'd insert a probe into the patient's head to press the nodule and the patient's immediate response would be to shout out, "FUCK IT! WHY NOT?

Edgar Allan Poe once called the death of a beautiful woman "the most poetical topic in the world" and I have often found myself wondering how many women writers who have killed themselves or let themselves be otherwise obliterated were trying, somehow, to fulfil this most popular of narratives. We're most valuable when we're smiling, dead, posing, our words hanging on the page with no real body behind them.

Messianism is not accidental to man's existence but the inherent, logical answer to it—the alternative to man's self-destruction.

Bu nas?l oldu? Nas?l oldu da, insano?lu, do?aya kar?? kazand??? utkunun doru?undayken, kendi yaratt??? ?eylerin tutsa?? haline geldi, nas?l oldu da, ciddi olarak kendi kendini yok etme tehlikesiyle kar?? kar??ya kald??

Ja sam moderan ?ovek i vrlo sam sklon samouništenju.

The self must be destroyed, brought down to nothing, in order for self-transcendence to begin. Then the self can begin to relate itself to powers beyond itself. It has to thrash around in its finitude, it has to die, in order to question that finitude, in order to see beyond it. To what? Kierkegaard answers: to infinitude, to absolute transcendence, the the Ultimate Power of Creation which made finite creatures.

The Muslim Brotherhood's declaration of war against the United States is real, and the Obama Administration is again asleep at the wheel, continuing a policy of self-destruction.

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.

How easy it was to capitalize on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

How easy it was to capitalise on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

Qué fácil era sacar provecho de la inclinación de una persona por la autodestrucción, qué sencillo impulsarla a la no existencia y, después, alejarse, encogerse de hombros y decir que había sido el inevitable resultado de una vida caótica y catastrófica.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.