Paul Eldridge Quotes

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

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

Vices are their own punishment

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

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.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

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.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

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

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

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.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

The self is hateful.

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

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

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

No man is hurt but by himself.