Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

He has no worse enemy than himself.

Every man is his own worst enemy

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

Nobody can pull you down more than you.

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

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

Man is his own worst enemy.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

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

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

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.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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

God defend me from myself.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.