Top 86 Self Inflicted Quotes
#1. Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. How absurd it would be if the further development of the menagerie itself would be held back by self-inflicted wounds!
Anonymous
#3. I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.
Tim Dorsey
#5. You don't have a monopoly on pain or loss. It's a level playing field - we all lose - we all grieve. It's what remains afterwards that defines us. Guilt is the poison we pump into our own veins. It's self-inflicted torture.
R.W. Patterson
#6. I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.
Sylvester Stallone
#7. Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
Albert Einstein
#8. Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.
John Lydon
#9. Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
Thomas Keating
#10. What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.
Sue Grafton
#11. I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
#12. And when desperation leads you into a rotting pit of self-inflicted torture, you are left with nothing but the acknowledgment that desperation played you for a fool.
Siobhan Davis
#13. Something about the way Chinedu said his name, Abidemi, made her think of gently pressing on a sore muscle, the kind of self-inflicted ache that is satisfying.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#15. Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me?" He asked. "Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice.
Donna Lynn Hope
#16. Loneliness is imposed by society, it kills you and solitude
is self inflicted. I enjoy my solitude
Dixy Gandhi
#17. We hold within ourselves the medicinal materials to mend self-inflicted injuries sustained while traversing the thorny obstacle course of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#18. Hate is self-inflicted torture. It hungers for revenge, damage, division, and violence, but is never satiated. Hate is a psychological hell to which we condemn ourselves and endeavor to burn others.
Steve Maraboli
#20. We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
Huey Newton
#21. Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
Jay McInerney
#22. Does the Japanese race, wonders Jacob, derive gratification from self-inflicted misery?
David Mitchell
#23. Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
Mason Cooley
#24. Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.
Valerie Martin
#25. Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of "if only's" leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, one's final iteration of the excuse became one's final utterance, and one expired.
Andrew Levkoff
#26. Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#27. Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
A. L. Kennedy
#28. But poverty, with most who whimper forth
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
William Cowper
#29. I have often sat in that chair behind my desk and wondered how you would look lying naked here on this sofa. It was a form of self-inflicted torture."
"Good heavens
Amanda Quick
#30. The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.
Robert Kiyosaki
#31. I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.
Walter Russell
#32. Despite the crushing weight of the expectations placed on her, from the theological to the self-inflicted, what I needed was the last, selfless thought in her sleepy head.
Tammara Webber
#33. Only the French, I thought, could attain orgasm by listening to themselves. It was self-inflicted oral sex. A DIY blowjob.
Stephen Clarke
#34. It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.
A.C. Grayling
#35. [A]ll her hardships had been self-inflicted and recreational in the past.
Iain M. Banks
#36. So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.
Jonathan Franzen
#37. We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.
Philip Greenspun
#38. Abstention, self-control, self-inflicted pain: these are forms of power - about the only kind you can have when you're a fourteen-year-old girl, by the way.
Meg Howrey
#39. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#40. Believing you are a self made woman or man is a self inflicted egocentric fantasy.
Ben Tolosa
#41. Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end.
Emily Thorne
#43. Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.
Evelin Lindner
#44. Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough ... and then just let go of all the rest.
Duane Elgin
#45. There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics ... When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.
Barack Obama
#46. When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.
Slash
#47. My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.
Miriam Toews
#48. Jealousy is a self-inflicted curse. Be happy for others and live curse free.
K.M. Golland
#49. Most of our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence.
Marty Rubin
#50. Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident."
"I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.
Terry Pratchett
#51. I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
John Mayer
#52. Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
Ron Fournier
#53. We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.
Prince Philip
#54. I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
Erykah Badu
#55. It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Arthur Helps
#56. When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
Neal A. Maxwell
#57. Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.
David Cameron
#58. The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.
Ed Silvoso
#59. All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Sebastian Coe
#61. God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.
Sunday Adelaja
#62. He knew all about self-inflicted wounds, especially the pointless ones. They weren't all physical.
Anonymous
#63. If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
Rabindranath Tagore
#64. The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
William Styron
#65. Cagliari central defender Comunardo Niccolai became celebrated for his ability to score bizarre own goals in the 1960s, so much that self inflicted problems in general are often referred to as 'Niccolai-like'.
John Foot
#66. To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins,
All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception)
Is agony immobilized. While Time,
The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
Carson McCullers
#67. When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
Anne Lamott
#68. And still we love the evil cause
And of the just effect complain;
We tread upon life's broken laws
And murmur at our self-inflicted pain.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#69. The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.
Robert Morrison MacIver
#70. We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?
Santideva
#71. Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.
Gerald R. Ford
#72. In my world, our self-inflicted bondage with chains, cuffs, and ropes was never about containment, but freedom, a letting go.
Vanessa Fewings
#73. It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
Bill Veeck
#74. We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
David Blunkett
#75. The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.
Steven Magee
#76. Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
Walter Russell
#77. Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
James Dillehay
#78. I love to read. My education is self-inflicted
Groucho Marx
#79. I'd never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we're all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I'd read Tennessee Williams. I just didn't expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.
Dan Skinner
#80. Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute
Erich Heller
#81. We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#82. You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself ... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.
Maurice Jones-Drew
#83. Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
William J. Clinton
#84. Sometimes natural and self-inflicted atonement is more severe than that of mankind's devising.
Mary Lindsey
#85. A lot of Christians are blaming the devil for their own self-inflicted wounds.
Joyce Meyer
#86. Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.
Crystal Woods
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