Self Destructive Quotes - Page 4

• Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

  Mona Kuhn

  Photography, Discovery, Self

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• Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

  Nikola Tesla

  Self, Joy, Sanctuary

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• Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.

  David Deida

  Heart, Self, Giving

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was heading in a self destructive direction. My priority wasn't together, wasn't in order. So me getting locked up was actually a blessing for me. It helped for me to see the light. Once you get the rug snatched from under you - I had my career and family snatched from me, and I was forced to just sit there in that box for three years and think about what I did and how selfish I was, it made me really see things with new eyes, like, hold up, why was I doing that? What the hell was I thinking about? I gotta change. Something's got to give. I can't ever come back in this place again.

  Prodigy

  Selfish, Eye, Blessing

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• If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Self, Way, Ifs

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• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stupid, Worst Enemy, Self

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• When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

  John Lennon

  Suicide, Drinking, Believe

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• So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Life, Beautiful, Dark

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• I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

  Louis Zamperini

  Hurt, Hate, Real

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• I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. [...] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.

  Gayle Forman

  Self, Balls, Useless

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• Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

  Brené Brown

  Self, Perfect, Goal

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

  Rachel Vincent

  Self, Addiction, Kind

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Stray”, p.305, MIRA

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• I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

  Paul Tillich

  Self, Unity, Overcoming

  Paul Tillich, Erdmann Sturm (1998). “Sozialphilosophische und Ethische Schriften”, p.700, Walter de Gruyter

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• It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

  Alison Bechdel

  Self, Consciousness, Capacity

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• The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

  Alice Walker

  Jobs, Self, Evil

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.274, Hachette UK

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• Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.

  Ian Stevenson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Self

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• He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Airplane, Thinking

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

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• I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her?

  Simone Elkeles

  Self, Want, Path

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

  David Sheff

  Self, Obsessed, Considerate

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Self, Rejection, Way

  Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.16, University of Toronto Press

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• Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

  Jim Butcher

  Cheating, Lying, Drinking

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• For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.

  Renee Olstead

  Hair, Self, Years

  "My Life Before ‘Secret Life’" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

  Karen O

  Self, Years, Destructive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

  Kirk Hammett

  Self, Twenties, Destructive

  "Kirk Hammett of Metallica Discuss Their 1997 Album, 'Re-Load'". The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. December, 1997.

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• I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Party, Rocks, Self

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