Top 89 Destroy Yourself Quotes
#1. Lebedev: ... There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.
Anton Chekhov
#2. If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.
Giles Duley
#3. Just make sure you're fighting for the right stuff. Don't destroy yourself for something ... someone ... who isn't going to fight just as hard for you.
Melissa Pearl
#4. Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.
James St. James
#5. I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
Colin Farrell
#6. Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
#7. Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.
John Darnielle
#8. Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#9. Why are you so determined to destroy yourself?" I say, and my voice is very small.
"I don't know," he whispers back. "Why are you?
Brenna Yovanoff
#10. You are not a terrible person. But the world is a terrible, HORRIBLE place. What you've got to do is take all that rage and all that hatred that's inside of you and turn it around. You've got to stop trying to destroy yourself. Turn that rage outward, go out and try to destroy the WORLD instead.
Jim Knipfel
#11. The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.
Martha N. Beck
#12. Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.
Michael Bassey
#13. You are the only one who can create an incredible world around you, or destroy yourself.
Thalia
#14. Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love
or what good is it?
Saul Bellow
#15. I thought you were supposed to destroy yourself for art.
Edward Field
#16. Though others may hate you, those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ~ President Richard Nixon
Chester Goad
#17. Boro-babu, the world does not change, you destroy yourself trying to change it, but it remains as it is. The world is very big, and we are very small. Why cause people who love you to go through such misery because of it?
Neel Mukherjee
#18. There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.
Mary Harron
#19. Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.
Robert Hunter
#20. In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.
Chris Cleave
#21. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
Steven Pressfield
#22. To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.
Patrick White
#23. It's weak to speak and blame somebody else
... When you destroy yourself.
Chuck D
#24. When you give in to aversion and anger, it's as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
#25. The religion and it's many barbed indoctrinating tendrils just start to become what makes you who you are, so you have to kind of destroy yourself to be able to rebuild yourself and make yourself whole again.
Mat McNerney
#26. Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
C.S. Lewis
#27. The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
Klaus Kinski
#28. The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
Joan Of Arc
#29. Everything you say is absolutely right - the death of those we love is so much worse than our own death, and yes all love is a form of suicide, you destroy yourself, you surrender yourself, you kill something in yourself, willingly, if you really love.
S.K. Tremayne
#30. Those that hate you don't win until they get you to hate them. Then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
#31. If you think only of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself.
Eric Felten
#32. If you give into hate, you'll destroy yourself. Hate doesn't help anything.
Nathan Taffel
#34. It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.
Ray Davies
#36. In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
Orhan Pamuk
#37. Am I just a game to you? The quiet crazy girl that you want to challenge yourself with? See if you can destroy my life so you can hang my card on your collection? Well get in line, buddy, because you're not the first.
Allie Brennan
#38. Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.
Jim Stanford
#39. Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
Vikram Seth
#40. You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
William Rose Benet
#41. If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We'll see who hates best. But first, first I will destroy your hatred. Now. My hate is colder, stronger, and you'll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing.
Jean Rhys
#42. Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.
Spencer W. Kimball
#43. Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
Chuck Palahniuk
#44. Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.
Richelle Mead
#45. I once thought I defeated the evil in my heart. I learned something: We can face our demons, burn them up, stomp them into the ground. I turned mine to ashes. But even if you destroy the evidence of evil, you can't heal your heart. Not by yourself.
Ted Dekker
#46. Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz
#47. your one true promise can make someone's life beautiful , in the same way your one false promise can destroy someone's life
So make sure yourself about your promise before make sure someone other that you will keep stand on your words.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#48. You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#49. Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war.
Karen Marie Moning
#50. Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you.
Janet Mock
#51. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.
J.C. Reed
#52. You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.
Camryn Manheim
#53. the danger in loving is in giving someone the ability to destroy you. Because you cannot truly love without giving up some of yourself, and it is a leap of faith to hope that the person you give it to cares enough for it that you keep yourself all in one piece.
Colleen Vanderlinden
#54. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can't be changed - these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy.
John Piper
#55. By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#56. Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.
Thomas Brooks
#57. The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
Alice Walker
#58. Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
Mina Loy
#59. If the enemy is a significant part of your body, then how do you destroy it without killing yourself?
Toba Beta
#60. What you see when you find yourself is what will help you ... or destroy you.
Umair Naeem
#61. Things can be fixed.
Relationship CANNOT.
Its like standing on a cracked glass plane, you might just adjust yourself for the time being but there will always be a fear of increasing the cracks, fear of falling through, fear of being destroyed.
Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
#62. Sometimes in life the accuser can have you so convinced that you are inadequate that he doesn't even have to say it anymore - you start saying it yourself. With your own words you can destroy your own destiny.
Toure Roberts
#63. Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.
Anton Chekhov
#64. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
Alexandra Monir
#65. Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
John Ruskin
#66. Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
James Clavell
#67. You scratch whatever itches you choose," Charles told her, his voice cold and quiet."Enjoy yourself. But at the end of the day, you remember that Isaac belongs to my father - and to me. He is necessary to us as you are not. You will leave him unharmed or I will hunt you down and destroy you.
Patricia Briggs
#68. Thinking of only the worse of yourself will eventually destroy you
Sid Mittra
#69. You've certainly mellowed out ... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?
Hiromu Arakawa
#70. You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'
Ricky Martin
#71. AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.
Ryan White
#72. There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you
Jacques Lacan
#73. You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
Guillermo Del Toro
#74. And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.
Ian Fleming
#75. You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
William Temple
#76. I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
Tamora Pierce
#77. The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.
Orest Stocco
#78. False ideas about yourself destroy you. For
Ryan Holiday
#79. Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Kevyn Aucoin
#80. If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Peter Marshall
#81. If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.
Jodi Picoult
#82. Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility.
John O'Donohue
#83. Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don't spend your life letting other people destroy you while they try and force you into their moulds.
Dan Pearce
#84. Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#85. It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
Henry Rollins
#86. People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.
Eva Le Gallienne
#87. When you love yourself, then you are at peace. Wants or needs cannot destroy it
Debasish Mridha
#88. Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
Joyce Meyer
#89. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
Mary Shelley
