#Self Destruction Quotes

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

“That England, that was wont to conquer others,Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”

“Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself,And so shall starve with feeding.”

“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

“A nation never falls but by suicide.”

“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”

“For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.”

“Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”

“They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.”

“It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.”

“It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.”

“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”

“Immitation is suicide.”

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.”

“Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.”

“I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”

“This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.”

“There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.”

“Hate destroys the hater.”

“Man is his own worst enemy.[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]”

“Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.”

“Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.”

“Wood feeds the fire which burns it.”

“A man has no enemy worse than himself.”

“I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.”

“A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.”

“Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.”

“The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction”

“Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.”

“There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.”

“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”

“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys”

“There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.”

“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.”

“They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.”

“An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.”

“If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.”

“It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.”

“The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."”

“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”

“if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!”

“Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”

“When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.”

“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

“Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.”

“And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.”

“Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.”

“Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.”

“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”