Self Destructive Impulses Quotes

#1. We're talking about a tentacled flying lamp fucker, Dave. What are you prepared to call unlikely?

David Wong

#2. Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses ...

Storm Jameson

#3. we learn the emotional habits that can undermine our best intentions, as well as what we can do to subdue our more destructive or self-defeating emotional impulses. Most important, the neurological data suggest a window of opportunity for shaping our children's emotional habits.

Daniel Goleman

#4. A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it ...

Andrew Solomon

#5. When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

John D. MacDonald

#6. I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

Shahin Najafi

#7. I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

Paula Fox

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

Anurag Shourie

#9. We all do, kid. People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for the fun of it ... even if we're ruined along with it.

Rick Riordan

#10. Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

Barbra Streisand

#11. So you stick something up your ass, and you hope it might work, and it usually helps.

Doug Stanhope