Gerard Way Quotes

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.

Each man kills the things he loves. I recognise that in myself - in relationships, even with guitars - beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

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

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

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

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

I thought I could play the hellraiser and then put 'Johnny Vegas' back in his box. I found popularity through self-destruction. The more you damage yourself, the more people are drawn to you, and that can be quite addictive. It is not a lifestyle you can maintain.

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.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

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

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

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

Limit your inputs to only those that support a certain kind of self-destructive behavior, and you can be cheered with enthusiasm as you drive yourself off a cliff.