self-destruction

But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or malice, or not mainly, but because of a lopsided mixture of extraordinary cleverness, extraordinary greed, extraordinary proliferation of our own kind, and a biologically built-in short-sightedness.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

I miss the thrill of your self-destructive heart that melts in the sun like chocolate, bittersweet and incandescent.

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us.

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.

I would rather fight with my pain or end up with self destruction.

I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge__ome never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.

The worst threat to man is man himself

I want to know exactly how many pieces of myself I had to give away before I became something else entirely.

Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.

Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you.

If you don__ walk according to the Word of God, then you are on the way that leads to self-destruction

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to do things that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before they were scandalized because they now feel they have so little to offer. Some girls do drugs or drink to excess in an attempt to blot away their stigma. Others become depressed and anorexic. And others think so little of themselves that they date boys who insult or beat them.

We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.