Self-Inflicted Pain Quotes

Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

No man is hurt but by himself.

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

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

The only person I have hurt is myself.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

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

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

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

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself

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

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.