Self-Destructive Behavior Quotes

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

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.

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.'

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

I was banging seven-gram rocks...because that's how I roll. I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

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

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

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

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Hate destroys the hater.