Eric Butterworth Quotes

No man is hurt but by himself.

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

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

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

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.

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

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

You are creating your own hell.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

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

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

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.

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

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.