Destructive Emotion Quotes

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is bad for our health; it eats into our immune system. So, anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We shouldn’t welcome it or think of it as natural or as a friend.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.

Anger is self-immolation.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

Pity is a corroding thing.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.