John Webster Quotes

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.

Nobody can pull you down more than you.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Man is his own worst enemy.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

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

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

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.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.