Quotes About Self-destructive

Fue la locura financiera, un ciclo autodestructivo de impagos y devaluaciones, la que hizo que Argentina pasara de ser el sexto país más rico del mundo en la década de 1880 a convertirse en un desastre inflacionista en la de 1980.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.

Perhaps men are a trick Sa played on this world. 'All other things I shall make vast and beautiful and true to themselves,' perhaps he said. 'Men alone shall be capable of being petty and vicious and self-destructive. And for my cruelest trick of all, I shall put among them men capable of seeing these things in themselves.' Do you suppose that is what Sa did?

We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

If the path to experiencing one's feelings is blocked either the prohibitions of poisonous pedagogy or by the needs of the parents, then these feelings will have to be lived out. This can occur either in a destructive form, as in Hitler's case, or in a self-destructive one, as in Christiane F.'s. Or, as in the case of most criminals who end up in prison, this living out can lead to the destruction both of the self and of others.

Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.

My life sucks when I'm only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it's really like, I'd probably jump off a bridge.

There's a lot psychologically going on in boxing... I think I relate to some of it. I have a respect for it. It's like performing, but it's also this crazy, self-destructive thing.

I used to think if I didn't have a drink it was going to be a rubbish night, so I'd drink purely to get drunk.

Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.

If you are corruptible and your imagination is confined to worries about loss of power, you exist in a self-destructive system

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

When you start drinking, everything goes out of the window. You don't care about anything. You don't even care about yourself.

Organizations the world over are full of people who are unable to recognize repetitive behavior patterns that have become dysfunctional. They're stuck in a vicious, self-destructive circle and don't even know it—much less how to escape.

But Sade behaved exactly as if he could not tolerate the possibility that his troubles might be over. He launched immediately into a new bout of provocative debauchery.

To take medication as part of the battle is to battle fiercely, and to refuse it would be as ludicrously self-destructive as entering a modern war on horseback. It is not weak to take medications; it does not mean that you can't cope with your personal life; it is courageous.

She could understand and analyze and predict the exact outcome of her crazy, self-destructive behavior and then go ahead and do it anyway.

We also know people who are definitely not fun to be around. There's a heaviness to their presence, an agitation to their energy. And they often leave us feeling dissatisfied and drained, as if something has been taken away, instead of given to us. These are the energy vampires. They send out hateful signals because, no matter how they may behave, they're inwardly hateful to themselves.

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself. That's just the way Evil is. All things considered, it's better to be on the side of Good, even if Evil occasionally has nicer uniforms.

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

Jealousy is a deficiency, of your mind that damages only you, no one else.