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Self destruction Quotes

"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die"

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself"

"In order to understand, I destroyed myself."

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within"

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies"

"If you allow your self-esteem to erode, your fear will eat at you; ultimately it could destroy you."

"The people that are inclined to hate, are also inclined to be losers."

"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"

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law"

"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."

"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies"

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact."

"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."

"Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction."

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