Troy Dumais Quotes

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

When you obsess about fitness goals they become unhealthy and impossible to achieve.

I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.

I have something called exercise bulimia, which is where you rid of your calories by over-exercising.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

I broke things to get attention.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

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

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.

There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin, that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.