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“My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.”

Life My Own Destruction Slave Impulse

Book:The works of Lady Caroline Lamb

Source: The works of Lady Caroline Lamb

“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.”

World Littles Persons Reason Whole My Own Greater Destruction Fingers Affection Contrary Whole World Ruins Former Indian Latter Preference Ardent Uneasiness

Author:David Hume

“I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.”

“Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.”

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.”

Ifs War Done Law Certain Found My Own Destruction Conquer Opponents Working It My Own Life Laws Of Life

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.”

Doe Problem Seems My Own Achieve Destruction Theater Killing Various Core Objectives Engaged Astonishing

Author:James Mattis

“Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.”

My Own Destruction Doctors Interfere

Author:Peter Grimwade

“I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”

World Way Doe Said Lasts Used Waiting My Own Practice Masters Destruction Patient Horrible Torture Why Not

Book:I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel

“Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement.”

Doe Seems My Own Source Mouths Destruction Remains Amusement Reaper

Author:Rachel Vincent

“It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.”

Knows Wells Art Given Stuff Realizing My Own Disease Destruction Sacred Martial Arts Disability Junk My Own Life Down The Road Premature Precious Things Citadels

Author:Ralph Maxwell