Hermann Hesse Quotes

If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you will beat up on yourself by destroying some area of your own life.

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help 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've always known if anything killed me, it would be boys. From the time I was a teenager into my thirties, I loved only the ones who were bad news.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

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

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so badly that we'd do anything for it. It hurts when you know that no matter how much you try, how much you want it, they can't love or accept you as you are. Then you hate all that time you wasted trying to please them and wonder what about you is so awful that they couldn't at least pretend to love you." - Bride

Who is fatal to others is so to himself.

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.