Destroying Myself Quotes

#1. We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility ... You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

Lyall Watson

#2. There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

Paul Bourget

#3. Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

Henri Nouwen

#4. Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

Janis Joplin

#5. I suppose I'm the one responsible for destroying myself.

Natsuo Kirino

#6. There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.

Paulo Coelho

#8. I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

John Connolly

#9. In the process of creating what we want, in pursuit of our happiness, we are just destroying the very source of our life, this planet; we are making a bonfire out of it. But still we are not satisfied, nor are we any more joyful than what people were five hundred years ago.

Sadhguru

#10. I shouldn't even exist. Neither should they. What's the difference between destroying me and destroying them?" - Lexia Graham

Katheryn J. Avila

#11. The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.

David Haye

#12. I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I ... I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not ... for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. I have decided that I'm ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one will convince me again that I'm not worthy. Not ever again. I have been invited and I have said Yes. My Yes is final.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#14. Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

Steve Coogan

#15. But if I hurt you - if I was the cause of your death - there's nothing that would keep me from destroying myself.

Cassandra Clare

#16. I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. Then I took a shower, unlocked the door, and set out on destroying myself.

Emma Woolf

#19. It's like in someways I've been trying to create without first destroying. Is such a concept possible? For too long I have feared myself, fear what I can create. In essence, I have feared creating myself.

Jeremy Caldwell

#20. Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#21. Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

Paul Watson

#22. Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

Julia Stiles

#23. I know that I am also destroying you as I destroy myself.

Cezmi Ersoz