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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• Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

  Paul Carus

  Self, Expression, Spirit

  Paul Carus (2013). “History of the Devil”, p.449, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Eight, Self

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Party, Rocks, Self

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• There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

  Terrence Howard

  Hero, Self, Principles

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Teenager, Self

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I truly believe that forgiveness is the fast track to greater love and it's the path that can really heal all. We all have areas of our own lives where we have a hard time forgiving, whether it's with ourselves, or others, but when we can practice forgiveness, many of our self-destructive habits will begin to fade away.

  Marci Shimoff

  Believe, Hard Times, Practice

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Love Is, Opposites

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Wise, Healing, Ideas

  D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.48, Fearless Books

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• A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

  Benjamin Carson

  Responsibility, Self, People

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• Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Integrity, Believe

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Feb 22, 2012

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• The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

  Sophie Dahl

  Self, Ideas, Unhappy

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• The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think...Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviors such as war.... The Gita is a dishonest book .

  Wendy Doniger

  War, Nice, Book

  Philadelphia Inquirer, November 19, 2000.

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• Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

  John Keats

  Nature, Blessed, Self

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• Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.

  Walter E. Williams

  Children, Pregnancy, Self

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• I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.

  Thom Gunn

  Sex, Thinking, Self

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• I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

  Louis Zamperini

  Hurt, Hate, Real

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• I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

  Kirk Hammett

  Self, Twenties, Destructive

  "Kirk Hammett of Metallica Discuss Their 1997 Album, 'Re-Load'". The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. December, 1997.

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• You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, America, Self

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.

  David Deida

  Heart, Self, Giving

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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