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A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

Fred Allen

To trap one’s self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

Frida Kahlo

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

Gautama Buddha

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

George Eliot

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

Lewis Thomas

Whatever flames upon the night Man’s own resinous heart has fed.

William Butler Yeats

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Hermann Hesse

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

Gregory David Roberts

You’re heading for a breakdown. Why don’t you pull yourself to pieces?

Groucho Marx

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

Agatha Christie

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Daniel Defoe

You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

Darcey Steinke

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

John Steinbeck

Nobody’s trying to kill you, Deirdre. You’re killing yourself.

Augusten Burroughs

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

Karl G. Maeser

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

John Cheever

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

John Donne

Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

Sri Aurobindo

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.

Brandi Carlile

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