Quotes About Self-inflicted

I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.

Brexit is a self-inflicted wound; the people of this country hold the knife, and they don't have to use it if they don't want to. The people, not the hardline Brexiteers, are in charge.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World.

If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go.

The habits and addictions of the amateur are conscious or unconscious self-inflicted wounds. Their payoff is incapacity. When we take our M1903 Springfield and blow a hole in our foot, we no longer have to face the real fight of our lives, which is to become who we are and to realize our destiny and our calling.

boredom is a self-inflicted wound. Heal thyself.

El odio es una sombra negra y alargada. En muchos casos, ni siquiera quien lo siente sabe de dónde le viene. Es un arma de doble filo. Al mismo tiempo que herimos al contrincante nos herimos a nosotros mismos. Cuanto más grave es la herida que le infligimos, más grave es la nuestra. El odio es muy peligroso. Y, una vez que ha arraigado en nuestro corazón, extirparlo es una tarea titánica.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Some situations you cause yourself.

I suffer because of myself. It is my own soul all the time that is bothering me.

I've inflicted so much pain and suffering on myself over the years. I had a piercing called a guiche. That's the part between your arsehole and your balls. You're on all fours on a gurney. Your ass in the air, your meat and two veg hanging down. Your dignity is out the window. This girl did it, tattoos all over her face. I nearly passed out with the pain.

the most damaging wounds are selfinflicted!

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

Fresh wounds, said Angua. But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident. I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest, said Vimes.

Being labeled a racist has hurt the most, but I brought that on myself.

To be honest, most of my troubles - bankruptcy, drinking, gambling - were self-inflicted.

It was a miserable thing, to be responsible for breaking your own heart.

A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp." He

To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.