Diogenes Quotes

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

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

The only person I have hurt is myself.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

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.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

They build their own Hells.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.