Self Destruction Quotes - Page 2

• Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Self, Destruction

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• We often think that "bad" relationships are motivating by self-loathing or a wish for self-destruction, but I think that loving people who hurt us is more tied to a profound and earnest wish to soothe ourselves and recover from older hurts. And I've also found that having empathy for that urge is the best way to move through it, and beyond it.

  Melissa Febos

  Hurt, Moving, Bad Relationship

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Self, Destruction

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• One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

  Mike Norton

  Thanksgiving, Running, Selfish

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Drama, Self

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Running, Rap, Men

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• A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Self, Hands, Suffering

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• In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

  Dalai Lama

  Past, Self, Victory

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• God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Son, Men

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Apr 04, 2015

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• Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

  John Green

  Fate, Alaska, Self

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

  James Thurber

  Play, Self, Certainty Of Death

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

  Robert Southey

  Kindness, Omission, Self

  Robert Southey (2006). “Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

  Barry Goldwater

  Self, Talent, Republican

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• I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Laughter, Real, Humor

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• With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Luxury, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.199, Basic Books

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• A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Way, Waste

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.796, Spectra

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• destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Destruction

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• The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

  Cassia Leo

  Self, People, Path

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• We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Self, Years

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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• Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.

  Christa Wolf

  Writing, Mean, Self

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• But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

  Suzanne Collins

  Memories, Stupid, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.297, Scholastic

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• Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

  Mark Mirabello

  Fall, Self, Darkness

  Mark Mirabello (2005). “The Cannibal Within”, p.59, Mandrake

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• When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

  Christina Ricci

  Self Harm, Feel Better, Ideas

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• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  George Haven Putnam

  Government, Dungeons, Accusation

  George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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