Self-destructive Quotes

• 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 Van Halen
  • Habits
  • Self-destructive

• Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Self-destructive
  • Inherently

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

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Nature
  • Appetite
  • Self-destructive

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

  

  Karen O
  • Anymore
  • Self-destructive

• I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Hope

• I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructive in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Way
  • Trust
  • Self-destructive

• I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four hours later and it will feel like it's been five minutes. I think that adds depth to your being, when something in your life can do that for you. Everybody should try to find something in their life that can do that for them. People find really elaborate self-destructive ways of killing time on this planet. That's why they take drugs or drink, trying to alter their state of being. If you can find something that doesn't destroy you, but deepens your character, you're really lucky.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • People
  • Self-destructive
  • Elaborate

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Goal
  • Self-destructive

• I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Person
  • Breakfast
  • Self-destructive

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

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Burn
  • Self-destructive
  • Fade Away

• I am a self-destructive idiot.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Idiot
  • Self-destructive

• If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Truth
  • Rejection
  • False

• I think Alice Cooper probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Self-destructive
  • Alice Cooper
  • People`s lives

• Seth, I’m about to lose it. Enough about going after the artifact. It’s crazy. Can’t you tell when an idea is doomed? Are you programmed to self-destruct?

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Idea
  • Lose
  • Artifact

• Rage that has nowhere to go is redirected against the self, in the form of depression, self-hatred, and self-destructive actions. One of my patients told me, ‘It is like hating your home, your kitchen and pots and pans, your bed, your chairs, your table, your rugs.’ Nothing feels safe – least of all your own body.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Depression
  • Safe
  • Patients