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. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

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.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

No man is hurt but by himself.

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

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

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

By nature, I'm a very self-destructive person, but all that happens is that I just get more successful every time I do it. Someday I'll come crashing down, so that's why I try to keep a good attitude about it all.

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

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

Every man is his own worst enemy

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

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

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.