John Darnielle Quotes

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.

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

Every man is his own chief enemy.

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.

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

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

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

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

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

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

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

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.