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Quotes About Self-destructive

jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from the inside
~ Jennifer Niven
La raison découle du mélange de la pensée rationnelle et des sentiments. Si les deux fonctions se dissocient, la pensée se détériore en activité intellectuelle schizoïde et les sentiments en passions névrotiques autodestructrices.
~ Erich Fromm
For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.
~ Renee Olstead
The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.
~ Robert Anthony
But if she could give the same test to humanity as a whole, Sandra thought, the outcome would be very much in doubt. Subject is confused and often self-destructive. Subject pursues short-term gratification at the expense of his own well-being.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
~ Robert Greene
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
~ Frantz Fanon
Vices are their own punishment
~ Aesop
The people who would destroy themselves would be dangerous to others.
~ Dolores Cannon
IT'S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP, NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH, AND REPEAT THE CYCLE. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.
~ Jenny Holzer
I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?" "It's the only way we know how to love.
~ Andrew Pyper
Your pain isn't a trophy to show off. It's not a story to tell. It's potentially poison to your soul. To refuse to forgive is to choose to self-destruct.
~ Andy Stanley
Kate looked up at her, hollowed-eyed. She wouldn't be use to failure) No. He tried to fix it himself. He self-medicated with drink.
~ Ann Cleeves
I had seen my buddies crash and burn. Keith Moon died, and I always thought that was the way he wanted to go. John Belushi was a dear friend. A lot of the guys that I ran with were ending up dead, and I saw myself right on schedule to do that. I had some moments of clarity - once in a while.
~ Joe Walsh
From the beginning of al-Qaeda, there were reformers and there were nihilists. The dynamic between them was irreconcilable and self-destructive, but events were moving so quickly that it was almost impossible to tell the philosophers from the sociopaths. They were glued together by the charismatic personality of Osama bin Laden, which contained both strands—idealism and nihilism—in a potent mix.
~ Lawrence Wright
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
~ Dorothy Dix
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
~ Iris Murdoch
The historian Arnold Toynbee says of it, "The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.
~ Joan D. Chittister
For you, being around that man is like drinking a glass of poison every day," Nadine said. "Maybe it just makes you sick, makes you weak, makes you forget who you really are and what you really want. But if you keep drinking, sooner or later, the poison will kill you.
~ Anne Bishop
She says everyone around her drank or took drugs. She fell into the same pattern and gradually succumbed to despair.
~ Anne Garrels
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
~ Anne Sexton
Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning. "Yes, I think so." "I think so too.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The doctors told me' -- her voice sang on a confidential note-- 'that if any man alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dead, and in his grave--long in his grave.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald