Self-Destructive Tendencies Quotes

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

Goering is a morphine addict…a classic megalomaniac.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?

I got a bad habit of creating.

I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

I'm always going to have an addictive personality.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

The concept of 'Bad Magic' is something that is incredibly intoxicating and magical but ultimately bad for you.

You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Miserable people tend to act out.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

I was a psycho in college.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

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

My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry.