Self Destruct Quotes

#1. This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#2. There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

#3. My default button was set to self-destruct. It had been since birth.

Mercy Celeste

#4. You know, we worry about the Bomb, a thought interceded, and yet just look around: there are millions of people out there, just like you and me, with their thumb on the self-destruct button.

Etienne De L'Amour

#5. Boarding a ship was one of the riskiest maneuvers in naval combat. It was basically a race between the boarders rushing to the engine room and the collective will of those who had their fingers on the self-destruct button.

James S.A. Corey

#6. There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.

Miriam Toews

#7. Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.

Carl Sagan

#8. We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Shannon Hoon

#9. I am beholden to my own peculiar irony: to survive I self-destruct.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#10. Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.

Bonnie Baker

#11. People don't die from panic attacks. It just doesn't happen. You're body is a dick, but it's not going to let you self-destruct like that. Even though the emotional pain and physical discomfort may be quite unbearable, anxiety will not physically hurt you.

Robert Duff

#12. The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Tom Stoppard

#13. Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

Jenny Offill

#14. It would be lovely if we could gather up all the evil people and put them together on one island, leaving them to self-destruct in their collective sinfulness.

Matthew Kelly

#15. I so badly needed to self-destruct.

Michelle Hodkin

#16. I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.

Patricia McConnell

#17. But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

Brit Marling

#18. One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.

George Washington

#19. Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

Boyd K. Packer

#20. I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.

Neal Shusterman

#21. I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.

Pete Seeger

#22. In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

Elisabetta Canalis

#23. Sink, suffer, self-destruct
Rise stronger, reconstruct

Lamb Of God

#24. Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see ... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school ... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege ... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

Charles M. Schulz

#25. We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

Douglas Coupland

#26. Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.

Kendrick Lamar

#27. And now as we ready to self-destruct there is very little left to kill which makes the tragedy less and more much much more.

Charles Bukowski

#28. I experienced it as a compulsion to self-destruct. I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more different ways I'd find to screw it up.

Steven Pressfield

#29. You know a lot of times wrestlers get too full of themselves. They can't separate themselves from the characters. They get used to the excitement, the energy, the lifestyle and the money and with a lot of these guys, when it stops, they self-destruct.

Hulk Hogan

#30. Denial and the desire to self-destruct are elemental cousins; mining one yields the other in equal proportion.

Domenica Ruta

#31. Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.

Sam Stevens

#32. The problem here is that you're questioning yourself. Self-doubt will cripple you more surely than fear ever could...if you fall apart after every major engagement, you'll self-destruct before long.

Claudia Gray

#33. My desire to self-destruct is a one-night stand
on Groundhog Day.
Fucking repetitive. Repetitively fucking.

Kris Kidd

#34. Hold these wires and make sure they don't touch."
"What happens if they touch?"
"The ship will probably self-destruct.

Marissa Meyer

#35. As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

Christina Ricci

#36. There's something about uncertainty...when things can go either way that make you secretly hope for the whole thing to self-destruct.

Justine Erler

#37. It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.

Joyce Rachelle

#38. This quote will self-destruct in ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Just kidding ... Or am I?

Craig Benzine

#39. Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck,
And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

Daniel Dumile

#40. A tenet of stoicism advises to live according to your nature. If you try to be something you aren't, you'll self-destruct.

Blake Crouch

#41. Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Joyce Carol Oates

#42. When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.

Eckhart Tolle

#43. Drug cartels have taken the driver's seat, training our young
men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger
community watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades lead
our people towards the path of self annihilation

Oche Otorkpa

#44. self-defense - since any society that's violent and stupid enough to self-destruct on H-bombs might easily destroy the entire universe if it survives long enough to invent something with real firepower.

Rob Reid

#45. Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. " Anyone who spent more than a half hour with Amelio would realize that he couldn't do anything but self destruct," he later said

Walter Isaacson

#46. Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Don DeLillo

#47. Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

Lawrence Reed

#48. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give.

Ann Brashares

#49. ... and I so badly needed to self-destruct.

Michelle Hodkin

#50. I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

Cecelia Ahern

#51. Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Ryan Lilly

#52. As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

Rosanne Cash

#53. It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place; that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear.

Stephen King

#54. The best way to reclaim your dignity is to act rationally and treat yourself lovingly. Do not self-destruct.

Ben Newman

#55. Confucius himself taught that the more laws a society has, the less people will obey them and that societies that depend on laws to control the behavior of their citizens will eventually self-destruct.

Boye Lafayette De Mente

#56. I hit the self-destruct button hard.

Nina Lane

#57. You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

Jillian Michaels

#58. It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

Samuel Shem

#59. In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

Luisa Valenzuela

#60. My body is both weapon and wound, predator and prey. I will self-destruct without any help.

Meg Haston

#61. Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.

Samantha Schutz

#62. Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.

Anurag Shourie