Quotes About Self-destructive

There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.

It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.

You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.

Many people are caught in a knot of self-destructive behavior and are unable to see it or appreciate how they themselves have tied it. Each believes the problems lie somewhere "out there," surrounding them but beyond them, rooted in external circumstances. They also believe that the solutions to their problems are "out there" too—the right man, the perfect woman, a more appreciative boss, a more interesting job, the right diet.

The Search for the Real Self is also about those with an impaired real self who are unable to accomplish the task of finding a fit with their environment, and are compelled to resort to self-destructive behavior patterns—evidence of a false self—that protect them from feeling "bad" at the cost of a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Like David we have a number of self-destructive options we use to avoid repenting and admitting sin. I'll list them and let you come up with personal examples for each: deny, avoid, blame shift, rationalize, and give excuses. If you can't think of how you've used these, you may be stuck in denial!

People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead.

Limit your inputs to only those that support a certain kind of self-destructive behavior, and you can be cheered with enthusiasm as you drive yourself off a cliff.

smoke, drink, never think—borrowed from Billie Holiday.

No one saw it at the time, but her addiction had never been about the high, it has been about the escape. She had been actively seeking ways to destroy herself.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.