J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

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

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

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

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

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

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

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 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.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

I never abused anybody but myself.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

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

The only person I have hurt is myself.

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.