Self Destructive Quotes

“Women can invest a tremendous amount of care and devotion into others, but by becoming sometimes dependent on being needed, they simultaneously become self-destructive. By their self-imposed dependence on being considered necessary, they deny their own freedom and agency, sacrificing their individuality and autonomy. (" Sweet Smell of Submission")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I am both self-destructive and self-loving.
Both seem very romantic to me.”
― juansen dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower

“I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“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, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“Desperate and dammed persons share an affinity for flirting with danger; an infectious case of erotic morbidity fetters them to self-destruction.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A destructive or creative state of psychological madness must trace itself to a source. By finding the source of their misery, a person might be able to corral the crazy desire prematurely to terminate their existence. An old saying suggests that self-hatred is the central cause of all self-destructive actions. Self-hate might consist of anger that we harbor towards other people who maltreated us. Repressed anger and pent-up hostility that we retain against other people that has no viable direct escape hatch can reflect and turn inward against ourselves. Perhaps we regret that we allowed other people to demean us, or rue that we lacked a protective level of self-esteem to begin with.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“An unbalanced soul seeks equilibrium. I seek a constitutional form to gather my thoughts. I wish to form a flexible personality. I desire to be gentle and fluid of mind. I wish to summon hidden personal powers, but I lack the knowledge and wisdom to do so. I lack a cohesive unifying spirit. I have yet to claim the authenticity of my life. I failed to accept that what anyone else thinks of me would not stave off an inevitable death. I have not claimed a purpose for living. I have not found a basic truth that I can live and die supporting. I failed to exert the resolute will to become who I aspire to be. I rejected abstract concepts and failed to endorse the systematic reasoning of philosophical studies. I indulged in the type of obsessive excessive self-analysis, which leads to the brink of personal destruction through self-objectification and artificial triumphs. Echoing the words of Romanian philosopher and writer E.M. Cioran (1911-1995), ‘I’ve invented nothing; I’ve simply been the secretary of my sensations.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“An ugly personal disdain for life is a reaction to an internal fury. A rage of immense portions clogs my veins. Similar to a convict sentenced to death row, I know my fate. I deplore living in solitary confinement. I hunger to locate the hidden power to escape a loathsome prior self. The gallows is the only apparent reprieve to the paucity of my personal existence. Unless I assassinate my pernicious ego, I will continue to experience life as a revolving wheel of anguish, suffering, guilt, remorse, and self-hatred.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Hate is the baseness of our humanity rising against that very humanity.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you genuinely care about someone, you won’t let them ruin themselves. It’s as simple as that.
Don’t use your ‘supportive friend’ excuse to justify your ignorance.
If someone in your life is living a self-destructive lifestyle, don’t encourage them. Don’t stand on the sidelines and watch. Do something.
Tell them they’re worth more than that. That they’re bigger than what they’re facing. Tell them there are better ways to heal. Better ways to grow.
Tell them they can be friends with better people.Tell them there’s no escape from reality but it only gets better if you face it. Tell them they’re killing themselves slowly by intaking drugs.
Tell them you love them and don’t want them to get hurt. Tell them that you care.

Do. Everything. You. Can.
Because even if they may not listen, at least you’ll know you tried.”
― Ambu

“The worrying thing is that he was well aware of his slide, but didn't seem to want — or be able — to do anything to help it.”
― Rob Jovanovic

“Some habits are self-destructive, even if they look attractive in the beginning, they often lead to a traumatic destiny in the end. Choose your habits as if your life depends on them, because it does.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Even so is the Libyan fable famed abroad: the eagle, pierced by the bow-sped shaft, looked at the feathered device, and said, “Thus, not by others, but by means of our own plumage, are we slain.”
― Aeschylus

“Oh, you have choked me, but I gave you the leash.
You have gutted me but I gave you the knife.
You have devoured me, but I laid myself across the fire.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

“Monsters are real. Maybe they’re not supernatural or satanic beings, maybe they don’t take unnatural forms, and maybe they don’t feed on human flesh or blood, but they do exist, and humanity is powerless against them.
Humans are inherently lazy, fragile, weak, cowardly, pathetic, self-centered, self-indulgent, and self-destructive. Very few have what it takes to overcome these flaws.
The only thing that can kill a monster is a bigger monster.”
― Robert Chad Canter, The Shadow Angel: Genesis

“Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Did she ever love me as much as much as I love her? I don't think so. But I know she did love me in her own self-centered and self-destructive way.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Charles, don't destroy yourself," said James. "Why are you always so intent on breaking everything that surrounds and supports you?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“We must each navigate a private expedition into the dense jungle of the mind. One must daringly respond to the call of autonomy in order to escape a caged in life of attachment, desolation, trepidation, and self-destruction. We can each locate a slice of heaven inside us.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The light in the room emphasised the array of bruises all over Jack’s body. The full-colour spectrum was present from sickly yellows, pooling purples, and blue blacks.”
― Jim Lowe, New Reform

“The one who might be holding you back is you.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“The point is... people who are unhappy with their station in life and don't change it end up developing all sorts of self destructive habits. I'm telling you this as a friend.”
― Douglas Paszkiewicz, Arsenic Lullaby Presents The Thousand Deaths of Baron Von Donut

“Too often ignorance is the preferred weapon of the self-destructive fool.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If my attitude is that the world is out to get me, it’s more likely that my attitude is really what’s out to get me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted.”
― Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

“Any cause that chooses itself as its own greatest good will end up becoming everyone else’s own greatest bad, including itself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Feel pity for the person who feels they must control all situations in their life and others, and must have things their way. They’ve spent most of their life feeling inferior, and not good enough. In reflection now, the slightest issue, not going their way, makes them feel out of control. Dear Lord, set them free from their own controlling, and self destructive impulses. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.”
― Ron Baratono

“A slave to my own self-destructive tendencies”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“Living was a tug of war, and dying was a piece of cake.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia