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Quotes About Self-inflicted

I have a history, even going back to my time in college doing plays, of always hurting myself at some point in whatever I'm in. Like, always! And it's usually my own doing and me being rambunctious and going, 'Oh, I can do that better,' or 'Oh, I can do that quicker,' and it results in injury.
~ Cress Williams
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
~ Harlan Coben
Watch this. Hayden Oh this is so weird. Hayden in Dragon form.Then he slapped his tail into the wall. Ow! Have to watch that. He jerked it back and hit himself in the head with the barbed end. Instantly he returned to being human so he could rub his unintended injury. Oh my God! Is that blood? Look at that! I'm bleeding. Hayden Oh my God! only my idiot twin could knock himself out with his own tail. How stupid are you? Edena
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cagliari central defender Comunardo Niccolai became celebrated for his ability to score bizarre own goals in the 1960s, so much that self inflicted problems in general are often referred to as 'Niccolai-like'.
~ John Foot
And still we love the evil cause And of the just effect complain; We tread upon life's broken laws And murmur at our self-inflicted pain.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature;
~ George Eliot
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
~ Sophocles
It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it
~ Sophocles
Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.
~ Sophocles
The griefs we cause ourselves cut deepest of all.
~ Sophocles
But the hand that struck my eyes was mine, mine atone—no one else— I did it all myself! What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.
~ Sophocles
Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we've created.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused
~ Elliot Perlman
You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself
~ Georgette Heyer
My advisors tell me I've been poisoned and that I do it to myself, but their tongues speak only half-truths, for I was born to suffer, and that is truth incarnate.
~ Scott C. Holstad
We are the cause of our own sufferings.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.
~ Stephen King
The fools are always the architect of their fall and trouble.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.
~ Jonathan Franzen
We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?
~ Shantideva
Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
~ Marie Lu, Prodigy
Verliefdheid rust op het roekeloze besluit verliefd te worden. Met zijn besluit had Simon de kwelling over zichzelf afgeroepen. De welling was masochistisch en theatraal. Het was gezocht ongeluk, zelfgeschapen wanhoop, ijdele parodie. Allemaal waar. Maar wat het ook mocht zijn, de kwelling werd er niet minder op.
~ Joost Zwagerman
Verliefdheid rust op het roekeloze besluit om verliefd te worden. Met zijn besluit had Simon de kwelling over zichzelf afgeroepen. De kwelling was masochistisch en theatraal. Het was gezocht ongeluk, zelfgeschapen wanhoop, ijdele parodie. Allemaal waar. Maar wat het ook mocht zijn, de kwelling werd er niet minder om.
~ Joost Zwagerman
Verliefdheid rust op het roekeloze besluit verliefd te worden. Met zijn besluit had Simon de kwelling over zichzelf afgeroepen. De kwelling was masochistisch en theatraal. Het was gezocht ongeluk, zelfgeschapen wanhoop, ijdele parodie. Allemaal waar. Maar wat het ook mocht zijn, de kwelling werd er niet minder om.
~ Joost Zwagerman