“It was as if the rage had swallowed all other emotion, all logic, like a pressure that had been building for so long and could no longer be contained, and the only way to relieve some of it was to destroy something, so why not myself?” EmotionDestructionAngerRageOverwhelmDestroying Yourself Book:Alive Day: A Memoir Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.” ThinkingTryingKindDrugEdgesAlcoholDisasterDestroyingFamily And FriendsVergeOver The EdgeDestroying Yourself Author:Johnny Depp
“Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.” PeopleMenNextFailingDestroyedDestroyingRebelliousResistingGetting AlongDestroying Yourself Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that's very necessary.” IfsWantKindEndsPurposeProcessEnjoyLosesPleasurePowerfulBehindsDestroyingDetachmentGaining PowerDestroying Yourself Author:Robert Greene
“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?” DestroyingDestroying Yourself Book:Hollywood Source: Hollywood