Jack Kerouac Quotes

No man is hurt but by himself.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

You are creating your own hell.

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

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

I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

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.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

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.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

No one can hurt me - that's my job.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.