Quotes About Self-destructiveness

Man's self-destructiveness and failure to attain a telos that cures dissatisfaction suggest a disjunction in his origins to which, theologically, the name "original sin" is applied.

In sum, our findings suggest that narcissistic pathology in the context of BPD may be a protective factor that helps narcissistic patients to stay in treatment, limit self-destructiveness, and contain disorganization in the face of early traumatic attachment experiences

Is becoming wise an act of knowledge? For Nietzsche, the greatest thoughts were the greatest actions. Thinking in and through metaphors, Shakespeare gives us persons who act with titanic self-destructiveness, incarnate sublimity:

The Americans are people of extremes, prone to fits of rage and self-destructiveness, but also in possession of an inner strength that no one in history has been able to overcome.