Negative Cycle Quotes

The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Food became my coping mechanism and I've never been able to break that cycle.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

Negativity can only feed on negativity.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

If you don't have ample liquidity, and it's not durable, in times of stress, as you're looking for liquidity, you're forced to sell assets at declining prices, which then eats into your capital position, so it becomes this very, very negative cycle. There's no question that liquidity is sacrosanct.

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

While the things I do kill me, they just tell me to relax

I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Distrust naturally creates distrust.

My opponents can't get elected unless things get worse. And things aren't going to get worse unless they get elected.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.