John Donne Quotes

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

No man is hurt but by himself.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

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

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

The only person I have hurt is myself.