Quotes About Self-inflicted

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book... There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will for ever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

when product developers choose to operate their processes at high levels of utilization, they create unnecessary and wasteful variability in their processes. It is important to realize that this variability is a self-inflicted wound.

but there was no wound she could give me that i had nit already given myself

but there was no wound that she could give me that i had not already given myself

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

Trouble comes to those who bring it upon themselves, her mother used to say

Who needs terrorists or mother nature when through our own stupidity we do things like this.

The only shot he ever fired in anger… was at himself.

You really can't do anything about people's lives, I said to myself, neither friendship nor compassion nor the intelligence of the situations is of any use: people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning

God's judgment often consists in giving people what they want and letting them experience the self-inflicted consequences of their choices. He allows them to choose ways of thinking and living that are self-destructive, tearing down the honor and dignity of others and themselves.

Emotion has become a disease with you," said Platon. "You seek your own troubles, and make your own anxieties.