173 Quotes About Self-destruction
- Author Sebastian Japrisot
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The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.
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- Author James Patterson
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Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.
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- Author Israelmore Ayivor
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Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.
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- Author Yoon Ha Lee
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The presence of atrocity doesn’t mean you have to put your life on hold. You’ll arguably be better at dealing with the horrible things you have to witness, or even to perpetrate, if you allow yourself time to do the small, simple things that make you happy. Instead of looking for ways to destroy yourself.
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- Author Theodore Dalrymple
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There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
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- Author Oli Anderson
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Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The ego is the thing that kills itself out of the effort to feed itself while telling itself that neither is true.
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- Author Donna Goddard
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That voice you listen to is no friend. It promises so much but when has it ever given you what it promised? When has it ever given you any happiness longer than a fleeting moment? It has your destruction as its goal, not your happiness.
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- Author Katie Lowe
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Every breath, every moment, possessed with an illusion of glamor, of filthy decadence, purely because it was ours, we two our own radical world, a star collapsing inward and bursting, gorgeous, in the dark.
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