Daniel Defoe Quotes

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

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

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

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

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

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

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

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