Self Destruction Quotes

• There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

  Dorothea Brande

  Self, Novelists, Growing

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

  Aesop

  Fear, Conceited, Self

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.23, Pelekanos Books

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• 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

  Self, World, Want

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• Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Answers, Improvement

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• Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

  Daniel Defoe

  Death, Self Esteem, Dying

  An Essay Upon projects 'Of Projectors'

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• Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

  Marilyn French

  Love, Thinking, Self

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.

  Amish Tripathi

  Self, Hands, May

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• The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Self, Dishonesty

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• Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

  Bill W.

  Self Esteem, Pride, Guilt

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• Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Depression

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• Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

  Ray Davies

  Lying, Self, Evil

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• Survival of the fittest can take us only so far; competition and aggression have brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What is needed now is survival of the wisest. You can participate in this shift by expanding your own awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Competition, Survival

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• There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

  Gerard Way

  Self, Hammers, Destruction

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• 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

  Self, Stopping, Our Actions

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Peace

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• The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

  Norman O. Brown

  Health, Exercise, Self

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; 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

  Men, Self, Doe

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• 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

  Lonely, Struggle, Self

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life.

  T. B. Joshua

  May, Trouble, Destruction

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• Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

  Brad Pitt

  Self, Improvement, Fight Club Book

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• The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.

  Sonia Choquette

  Journey, Frustration, Self

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• In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

  Courtney Love

  Rocks, Self, Economic

  "22 Candid Quotes That Might Make You Love Courtney Love". www.popsugar.co.uk. July 10, 2014.

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• . . . 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

  Responsibility, Men, Self

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• My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

  Gillian Anderson

  Self, Destruction, Default

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• When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

  John Cheever

  Heart, Self, Sand

  1952 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.

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