Maimonides Quotes

It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

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

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

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.

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

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.

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

Often does hatred hurt itself.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

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

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Who is fatal to others is so to himself.