Self Destructive Quotes

Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.

~ Munia Khan

I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-destruction is an art, cursed are the exponents.

~ Anurag Shourie

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even on the same team. - From The Gardens of Ailana handbook for healers & mystics

~ Edward Fahey

A neon-pink 3 flickered and instantly disappeared again into the dark. The sight of it on my own device now made me sick. I held my finger down on the menu screen; each little app logo began to vibrate. I deleted the 3. I contemplated deleting everything. Cleaning it all away. The idea had a charm, a self-cancellation, many little suicides, a way to dispatch myself without actually going anywhere.

~ Olivia Sudjic

We each possess the capacity for self-development. We also possess the capacity for self-destruction. The path that we chose to take – to pursue lightness or darkness – is the story that we take to our graves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self-love isn’t always so poetic, sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself on your own nonsense, on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.

~ Steve Maraboli

It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Try not to complicate your life by attaching yourself in a circle of people who would dare to influence you to engage in self-destructive decisions and actions.

~ Hafiz

More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself.

~ Ken Poirot

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.

~ Theodor W. Adorno

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

~ Kim Edwards

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.

~ Steve Maraboli