Max Lerner Quotes

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

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.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

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.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

Man is his own worst enemy.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

Our brains will destroy ourselves if we don't put it outward.

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

I am the assasin of my dreams.

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

Every man is his own worst enemy

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

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

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

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

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.