Quotes About Self-inflicted

She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they became her reality.

The pressure I did feel before matches was self-inflicted. I didn't go out on court there thinking about what was being said in the papers and on TV about me.

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.

Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me?" He asked. "Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice.

Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.

I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.

Part of misery is self-inflicted. The other part you invite others to inflict upon you.

People create their own little hells. They don't need my help

Mrs Nix smacks herself in the head again. If she keeps that up she'll bruise

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

The pain is of our own making. It only hurts as much as we let it

The pain is of our own making, Kira." He pressed a finger against her forehead. "It only hurts as much as we let it.

It was so bad I had to hit myself in the hand with a tack hammer to take my mind off the pain it caused me

We violate no body so much as our own: towards it we display the perversity of the cat that constantly rips its wounds open.

Once again, Marcus was left with the feeling that Ellie didn't have to do what she had just done, and that she had brought the trouble she was in upon herself. He was tired of it. It wasn't real, and there was enough real trouble in the world without having to invent things.

Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true.

Thus fearful alike, of those within the prison and of those without; of noise and silence; light and darkness; of being released, and being left there to die; he was so tortured and tormented, that nothing man has ever done to man in the horrible caprice of power and cruelty, exceeds his self-inflicted punishment.

Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always.