Top 100 Quotes About Self Destruction
#1. Self-destruction is a taste I've savored much of my life.
Sarah Hepola
#2. If there's a takeaway from working here, it's an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.
Laurie Nadel
#3. Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.
Tim Hawken
#4. To Live In The Original Intention Of God Is To Chase Self Destruction Away
Sunday Adelaja
#5. Heroism
that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Become one with eternity.
Become part of your environment.
Take off your clothes.
Forget yourself. Make love.
Self-destruction is the only
way to peace.
Yayoi Kusama
#7. The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
Gore Vidal
#8. The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
Ayn Rand
#9. Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.
Benjamin DeHaven
#10. If you don't walk according to the Word of God, then you are on the way that leads to self-destruction
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
Idries Shah
#12. men will not cease to desire the impossible and will not lose their longing to destroy - so long as self-destruction and self-sacrifice are preached to them as the practical means of achieving the happiness of the recipients.
Ayn Rand
#13. If The World Does Not Change Course, We Risk Self-Destruction.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#14. With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#15. I have become one of those brittle, busy people who emerge from suffering like a tornado, turning so fast that we do not even realize how much self-destruction we're causing. The
Jodi Picoult
#16. Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
John Green
#17. Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction
Heinrich Harrer
#18. Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.
Russell Brand
#19. That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.
Ayn Rand
#20. I was on some sort of sick, self-destruction thought stream.
Nicole Williams
#21. Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
Dan Simmons
#22. Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery
Pete Wentz
#23. I think ... we all have the seeds of self-destruction in our soul, but each of us gets to choose whether or not to water them.
Lindsay Buroker
#24. Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#25. I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.
Johnny Vegas
#26. Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
Ozzy Osbourne
#27. There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
Gerard Way
#28. There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande
#29. A true friend honors and encourages our best self, and they will work at aaving us from self destruction, even if that means being difficult.
Karuna Cayton
#30. In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
Dean Koontz
#31. It was essential that someone, somewhere, even if it was only the fairy folk, should know that the human race had produced more than wars, catastrophes, and ultimately its own slow and painful self-destruction. It had produced things of exquisite and lasting beauty as well.
Kate Thompson
#32. When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.
Lionel Suggs
#33. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you can learn how to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you.
Truman Capote
#34. I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it
Gerard Way
#35. God allows demonic power over the unfaithful, the untruthful and the cruel, as a path to their self-destruction.
Daniel Marques
#36. But if I put the logistics aside and focused on what I knew - how I felt - it was hopeless. There was only resignation, and fear. Put the two together and you had a recipe for self-destruction.
Vikki Wakefield
#37. You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.
Ravi Zacharias
#38. Fear or happiness... Parenting or impulse... Primitive stupidity or vain self-destruction...
Plamen Chetelyazov
#39. If we look forward to a future in which mankind behaves rationally and avoids self-destruction, we can visualize a world that will be more complicated than the one we know today, but a world that will run better and, most of all, a world in which the individual will count for more, not less.
Isaac Asimov
#41. There is no greater symphony of self-destruction than the beautifully poisonous melody found in our excuses.
Steve Maraboli
#42. Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
Bobbe Sommer
#43. But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.
John Irving
#44. To Avoid Self Destruction Is Not To Be Grouped Through Life By Pursuing Education Alone
Sunday Adelaja
#45. Human is human," said Issib. "But civilized - that's the gift of the Oversoul. Civilization without self-destruction.
Orson Scott Card
#46. Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.
Mark Mirabello
#47. I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!
Homer
#48. Perhaps it was a tacit acknowledgement of her tendency to find danger, to gravitate towards self-destruction, but she'd been terrified of heights all her life.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#49. I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction ...
Charles Dickens
#50. The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#51. When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
Honore De Balzac
#53. INSECURITY breeds JEALOUSY / JEALOUSY creates ENVY / ENVY causes self-destruction / a hater is made up of all three. Just remember you are an opportunity away from being hated on yourself!
Carlos Wallace
#54. When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
Haile Gerima
#55. The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
Barry Goldwater
#56. Mamoon went on, "The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction." He raised his glass. "All the best then, my friends. Here's to a happy apocalypse."
"Happy apocalypse," murmured the other guests, obediently.
Hanif Kureishi
#57. If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
Albert Camus
#59. I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.
Christa Wolf
#60. Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.
Ray Davies
#61. In his mind World War III represents the final self-destruction and imbalance of an asymmetric world, the last suicidal spasm of the dextro-rotatory helix, DNA. The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator ...
J.G. Ballard
#62. In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
Courtney Love
#63. The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values.
Sunday Adelaja
#64. Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
Daniel Defoe
#65. The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.
Cassia Leo
#66. Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain.
Carl Sagan
#67. God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.
Billy Graham
#68. Destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
Anais Nin
#69. A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
Dan Simmons
#70. Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.
James Patterson
#71. Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
Bernie Siegel
#72. Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.
Stephen Kinzer
#73. Nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.
Suzanne La Follette
#74. A bizarre hysteria, perhaps, that point which many reached here, when anger was all that mattered. It led to self-destruction.
C.J. Cherryh
#75. All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.
Estelle Ramey
#76. Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.
Amen Muffler
#77. The cigarette represents a simple pleasure coupled with self-destruction and defiance of death. Melodrama
Benjamin Doolin
#78. The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.
Eckhart Tolle
#80. And I know different methods of self-destruction but none as intense as sitting still by myself.
Sam Pink
#81. The dialectics of hunger, the dialectics of poverty. How people move from resignation and from callousness to cynicism and being beaten-down, and anger and self-destruction ... and finally to anger and violence which can become very creative in the process.
Anonymous
#82. And i was left to ask "Did i help towards a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did i just assist in your wilful self destruction".
John Green
#83. Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.
Emil Cioran
#84. Destruction. The work of the Church seeks not only to remind everyone of the duty to care for nature, but at the same time "she must above all protect mankind from self-destruction".[47]
Pope Francis
#85. Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#86. Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.
Greg Bear
#87. I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson, but it was certainly a factor. It affected him psychologically and emotionally.
Karina Longworth
#88. Brasley still drank too much and liked his women, but at least he paced himself now, walking the path to self-destruction instead of sprinting down it at full speed.
Victor Gischler
#89. Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#90. We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.
Noam Chomsky
#91. How easy it was to capitalize on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.
Robert Galbraith
#92. The Jacobin leaders were beset on many sides by enemies, both open and covert. But in the end the most dangerous and unforgiving enemies they faced were themselves. In choosing terror, they chose a path that led to self-destruction.
Marisa Linton
#93. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.
Iris Murdoch
#94. Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
Dean Koontz
#95. When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
Zeena Schreck
#96. Selfishness and self-destruction, riding hand in hand, as they so often did.
Erika Johansen
#97. We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
James Thurber
#98. I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as if I want to see myself fail completely and disappear.
Daul Kim
#99. Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction ...
Chuck Palahniuk
#100. A part of him knew that the arc of his self-destruction was glaringly obvious to his customers, who grew steadily fewer, but that same part of him basked in the knowledge that it was only a matter of time.
William Gibson
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