Top 1200 Self-Destructive Quotes & Sayings

I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.

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

I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. [...] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

Anything you can do that's self-destructive in Vegas, whatever that is, I do it.

Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.

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

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.

Hate is indeed self-destructive, and this is what real Hip Hop must avoid at all cost.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido directed at the self. That now feels a little quaint, that kind of language. But it does include the most fierce and self-displaying form of one's individual self. And in this way, it can be dangerous. When you look at Donald Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area. And if that's what Fromm means by malignant narcissism, then it definitely applies.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.

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.

I am a self-destructive idiot.

The paper standard is self-destructive.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

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

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

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

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.

I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

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

I guess I'm rather self-destructive, and I like to give other people who are self-destructive a song to sing.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.