Self-Inflicted Harm Quotes

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.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

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

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.

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

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.