best quotations about
Self-destruction |
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Quotations
 | A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 73 likes |
 | Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 22 likes |
| The essential cause of the Roman conquest of Greece was the disintegration of Greek civilization from within. No great nation is ever conquered until it has destroyed itself. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 11 likes |
 | We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 10 likes |
 | Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 10 likes |
| We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 9 likes |
 | When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 6 likes |
 | I believe that no one can harm you but yourself. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 6 likes |
 | Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 4 likes |
 | The first enemy we must fight is within ourselves. Often, it is the only one. — Christine Orban, 1954-, French writer 3 likes |
| There may be Herostratoi who set fire to the temples in which their image is worshiped. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 2 likes |
 | If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
| Find what you love and let it kill you. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
 | All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer 1 likes |
 | Drunkenness is temporary suicide. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 1 likes |
 | All women stubbornly revolve around what should burn them. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
 | Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and fight against himself. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 1 likes |
 | If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. — Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer 1 likes |
 | Man is master of his destiny and his destiny is the earth, and he himself is destroying it until he runs out of destiny. — Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, Mexican painter 1 likes |
 | Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 1 likes |
| Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 1 likes |
 | The sheep go silently to the slaughterhouse, expecting nothing. But at least they don’t vote for the butcher who kills them or the bourgeois who eats them. — Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, main figure of the French Revolution 1 likes |
 | I usually solve problems by letting them devour me. — Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | What nourishes me, destroys me. Quod me nutrit me destruit. — Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593, English playwright (meaning: that which drives a person can consume him from within) 61 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The tongue has led many men to destruction. Η γλώσσα πολλούς εις όλεθρον ήγαγεν. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 8 likes |
 | But when a man speeds toward his own ruin, god gives him help. Αλλ’, όταν σπεύδη τις αυτός, χω θεός συνάπτεται. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 7 likes |
| Do not kick against the pricks, you will hurt yourself. Προς κέντρα μη λάκτιζε, μη παίσας μογής. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon (it is an ancient proverb) 6 likes |
 | Man’s enemy is himself. Πολέμιον ανθρώποις αυτοί εαυτοίς. — Anacharsis, 6th cent. BC, Scythian prince & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Asked when a man should approach a woman, he said: “When he wishes to become weaker.” Ερωτηθείς Πυθαγόρας πότε δει πλησιάζειν γυναικί, έφη: «ότε βούλεταί τις ασθενέστερος γίνεσθαι». — Pythagoras, 580-490 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 1 likes |
Proverbs
 | Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself. 12 likes |
 | Don’t saw off the branch you are sitting on. 5 likes |
| Don't meet troubles half-way. 4 likes |
