173 Quotes About Self-destruction

Can a person live without hope? Must a middle-aged man such as me who underwent a bevy of loss and failure aim to summon the interior moxie to watch the sunrise on each new day while wearing a faint smile of hope? Must I stoically resolve to endure bearing the weighty load of previous personal debacles? I gain nothing by wallowing in self-denunciation. Guilt and shame exact a severe tithe. I cannot lead a worthy life by tumbling into alcoholic numbness or a drug-induced pit.

What he would have liked, without admitting it, was for the whole world, forever under construction yet never constructed, to be like his own destroyed life.

She did it because it was, like so much else that made her happy, dangerous and self-destructive and just a little bit sick.

I wrapped myself in leaden sheetsAnd sank deep into my own infernal ocean

Sometimes you are the only toxic person you need to cut off your life, and I hope that one day you will be brave enough to admit it …

All other species use their intelligence to help them survive. Humans use theirs to destroy themselves.

...meant he resented his own life too much to make safer decisions, starting with the drinks that night but only snow-balling from there. Because it never occurred to James that there were people who cared about him so much that it hurt. Or maybe because James knew about these people, and that only made the pressure worse.

I was drunk with starvation; my hunger had made me tipsy.

Foul places began to gather in my inner being, black spores which spread more and more. And up in Heaven God Almighty sat and kept a watchful eye on me, and took heed that my destruction proceeded in accordance with all the rules of art, uniformly and gradually, without a break in the measure.