173 Quotes About Self-destruction

In driving, one assumes the danger of destroying life, beginning with one’s own.

Κατά μία έννοια, μόνος μου κατέστρεψα τον εαυτό μου. Τώρα το συνειδητοποιώ.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

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.

She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.

My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.

I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.

Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.