Self Destruction Quotes

"Ancient Greece had it all & then committed suicide. Nobody digs your grave better than yourself." "If you allow your self-esteem to erode, your fear will eat at you; ultimately it could destroy you." "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies" "Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law" "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself" "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact." "A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself" "As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill." "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength" "Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated." "Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies" "The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love." "Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself." "Only Americans can hurt America" "To understand, I destroyed myself. The curious will come after me to know why I disappeared." "Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal" "No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from." "To abandon oneself to principles is really to die" "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." "Extravagance is its own destruction."