Thom Yorke Quotes

The only person I have hurt is myself.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

No man is hurt but by himself.

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

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life!

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

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

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

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

I never abused anybody but myself.

I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.