Don DeLillo Quotes

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

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.

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

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

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

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.

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

Slow-motion suicide

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

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

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.