Carl Jung Quotes

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

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.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

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

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

The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

"It almost always happens that people enjoy a few moments and then afterwards feel very guilty. The guilt arises because of the ego. The ego starts torturing them, "What are you doing? Have you decided to kill me? And I am your only treasure. Killing me? You will be destroyed. Killing me is destroying yourself."

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

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

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

something is always falling apart in me.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

God defend me from myself.

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

They build their own Hells.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.