Self Destructive Quotes

• I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

  Whitney Houston

  Self, Want, Persons

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• I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

  Florence Welch

  Real, Self, Streaks

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• This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Reality, Sight, Self

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• America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

  John W. Gardner

  Freedom, Commitment, Greatness

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Fear, Real, Fall

  Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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• Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

  Brandi Carlile

  Self, Sometimes, Sane

  Song: My Song, Album: The Story, 2007

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• A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Self, Miserable, Highlander

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• We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

  David Lee Roth

  Self, Four, Rock N Roll

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• A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

  John Ralston Saul

  Self, Civilization, Tradition

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• A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Crazy, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The paper standard is self-destructive.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Self, Gold, Paper

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• As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

  Megan Fox

  Tattoo, Fire, Self

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• One thing I'm recognizing more and more in myself - and looking to change - is going down more of a self-destructive path when I feel pain. I'm trying to avoid that as much as possible. That is an impulse, when I feel out of control.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Pain, Self, Trying

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

  David Walliams

  Dark, Thinking, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

  Amy Winehouse

  Writing, Past, Self

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• Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

  Chris Kraus

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

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• These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.

  Moby

  Self, Years, Drunk

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• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  Tom Hollander

  Self, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money and investment decisions away from proven moneymakers (read: job producers) to Washington amateurs. In both cases, American's lose.

  T. J. Rodgers

  Jobs, Moving, Government

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• The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

  Thomas Sowell

  Attitude, Self, White

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• Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.

  Norman Geisler

  Lying, Believe, Self

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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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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• There are times in my life when I let myself get consumed with jealously for someone else's life, their body, their wardrobe, their talent. They call it the green-eyed monster for a reason. It's a self destructive and when it's in the room, it consumes you. Be strong and don't focus on what other people have.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Self, People

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• It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hurt, Moving, Self

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