Pete Doherty Quotes

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

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.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

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

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

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

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.

I've always known if anything killed me, it would be boys. From the time I was a teenager into my thirties, I loved only the ones who were bad news.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

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

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.