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#1

“You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct.”
― V.C. Andrews, Fallen Hearts

tags: dark-angel

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#2

“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.”
― Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying

tags: anxiety, death, suicide

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#3

“The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

tags: self-destructive-behavior

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#4

“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear. And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology. People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you’ll do anything to make it go away.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk

tags: affect-regulation, anorexia, anorexia-nervosa, coping-mechanisms, cut, cutter, cutting, eating-disorder, eating-disorder-causes, emotional-pain, emotional-regulation, emotional-release, emotionally-numb, gut-wrenching, heartbreak, intolerable, mental-illness, overwhelmed, ptsd, recklessness, self-destructive-behavior, self-harm, self-injury, sex-addiction, starve, traumatic-stress, traumatized

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#5

“June 16, 2018

I feel lovely, but it’s just the drugs. But sometimes I think that maybe it isn’t just the drugs? Maybe these feelings are inside of us all along, and the drugs find them. Maybe that’s why some people choose to be junkies because they choose to believe that they’re worthy of happiness. And maybe some of us like the pain so much that we numb it in order for us to really understand it. To put these suicidal feelings to sleep and fall in love with the way we fall in love with the stars within us. I think self-destruction is the most addictive thing. There’s something very powerful and magical about it.”
― Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction

tags: drug-addiction, self-destruction, self-destruction-quotes, suicidal-feelings

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#6

“Something in her past that makes her want to tear things to shreds.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

tags: chaos, self-destruction, spirit

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#7

“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: searching, self-destruction, self-mutilation, truth, wisdom

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#8

“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
― Fernando Pessoa

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#9

“There is stability in self-destruction, in prolonging sadness as a means of escaping abstractions like happiness. Rock bottom is a surprisingly comfortable place to lay your head. Looking up from the depths of another low often seems a lot safer than wondering when you'll fall again. Falling feels awful.

I'd rather fucking fly.”
― Kris Kidd

tags: depression, mental-illness, self-destruction, self-sabotage

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#10

“One thing's for sure, everyone has something. Not everyone has a giant scar or a missing limb to show for it, but it's there. The indelible mark of that thing. It's that thing that will not just go away quietly. That thing you resent because it can't let one day go by without making you think about it no matter how hard you try, until you end up depressed/angry/drunk/isolated (at best), disassociated (middle) or utterly self-destructive (at worst). It's that thing that went and branded you without your permission.”
― Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

tags: angry, depressed, emotional-pain, illness, isolation, problems, secrets, self-destruction

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#11

“The sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,
but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk
tick tick tick
me not making a sound
and some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,
but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: anxiety, be-okay, crying, hopeless, hurt, mental-health, okay, panic, panic-attack, panic-attacks, recovery, sad, sadness, self-destruction, self-harm, sky, tears

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#12

“You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster,
and nobody is so worried
about you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

tags: addiction, depression, fire, loneliness, self-destruction

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#13

“There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

tags: authenticity, ennui, eventful, happiness, lifestyle, misery, raison-d-être, resignation, self-destruction, vice

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#14

“In retrospect, crappy chemicals in my brain were working overtime, driving me to destroy myself, like that thing that makes lemmings throw them¬selves over a cliff.”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

tags: brain, depression, felicia-day, mental-illness, self-destruction

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#15

“This was bad behavior, and she knew it. She did it because she was angry and because she disliked herself. The more she disliked herself, the more she took it out on other people, and the more she took it out on other people the more she disliked herself”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

tags: self-destruction

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#16

“Efficient self-destruction is what it is. Clean and neat. Almost surgical in its precision.”
― Joe Buckler, xxx

tags: depression, drinking, self-destruction

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#17

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: change-the-world, stories, story, sunrise, world

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#18

“The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

tags: brokenness, getting-better, healing, self-awareness

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#19

“Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.”
― Frank Peretti, Illusion

tags: getting-better, perfect, perfection

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#20

“Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.”
― Nicole Williams, Collared

tags: brave, getting-better, pretending, up

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#21

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel

6327 likes

#22

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: change, growth, inspirational, letting-go, life, mistakes

3257 likes

#23

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: growth, new-year

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#24

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

tags: darkness, growth

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#25

“I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

tags: adversity, growth

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#26

“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

tags: absence, acceptance, grief, growth, life, loss

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#27

“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adaptation, anger, attitude, bullied, bully, bullying, confidence, confidence-and-attitude, encouragement, growth, inspirational, introvert, loneliness, motivational, outcast, pain, youth

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#28

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety

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#29

“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
― David Foster Wallace

tags: comformism, difference, individuality, isolation, suicide

914 likes

#30

“Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: abuse, isolation, relationships, survivor, trauma, traumatization, traumatized, trust

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