Self-destruction quotes

“To save civilization, I would show its collapse. But, how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom? They gobbled it up like a chocolate eclair! They didn't fear their demise, they re-packaged it. It could be enjoyed as video-games, as TV shows, books, movies, the entire world...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hugh Laurie - Nix

“Little friend of all the world, nobody's enemy but my own.”
Cary Grant - Jimmy Monkley

“- Sonny: Dreams die.
- Danny McGuire: No. No, no, no. Not by themselves. We kill them!”
Michael Beck - Sonny Malone
Gene Kelly - Danny McGuire

“- Meg Magrath: Why'd you do it, Babe? Why'd you put your head in the oven?
- Babe Magrath: I don't know... I'm having a bad day.”
Jessica Lange - Meg Magrath
Sissy Spacek - Babe Magrath

“Let me tell you a story, John. There was a sculptor. He found this stone, a special stone. He dragged it home and he worked on it for months until he finally finished it. When he was ready he showed it to his friends. They said he had created a great masterpiece, but the sculptor said he hadn't created anything. The statue was always there, he...” (continue)(continue reading)

Richard Crenna - Col. Samuel Trautman

“When you despise yourself, it makes it much easier to despise others.”
Greg Latter - Sgt. Dreyer

“Sometimes we want to hide from ourselves — we do not want to be us — it is too difficult to be us. It is at these times that we turn to drugs or alcohol or behavior to help us forget that we are ourselves. This of course is only a temporary solution to a problem which is going to keep returning, and sometimes these temporary solutions are worse...” (continue)(continue reading)
Catherine E. Coulson - Log Lady

“I'm a professional at makin' a mess of things.”
Tom Hiddleston - Hank Williams

“When it comes to love we all turn out to be our own worst enemy.”
Kate Winslet - Ginny

“Everyone creates the thing they fear. Men of peace create engines of war. Avengers create invaders. Parents create children, that will supplant them.”
James Spader - Ultron

“- Karen Collier: She's gonna have a nervous breakdown.
- Jeremy Collier: I know she wants one. I know she ain't gonna be happy until she has one.”

Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Karen Collier
Emilio Estevez - Jeremy Collier

“She doesn’t trust anyone, least of all herself. Which probably means she’s become someone she’s not proud of.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Guy Chambers

“Some people fall in love. I had to crash into it.”
Mandy Moore - Halley Martin

“- Anakin Skywalker: You turned her against me!
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: You have done that yourself.
- Anakin Skywalker: You will not take her from me!
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: Your anger and lust for power have already done that.”

Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker
Ewan McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

“- Arojaz: It won't be easy to get rid of your prophet now.
- Sanchez: On the contrary. It seems to me the man is preparing his own cross.”

Kario Salem - Arojaz
Armand Assante - Sanchez

“There's a long list of things I don't care for: doctors, sunburn, mosquitoes, people who outstay their welcome... I could go on forever. But there is one thing I cannot bear, and that's self-pity. It destroys everything around it. Now don't be that idiot. Don't let that happen.”
Maggie Smith - Muriel Donnelly

“Some people say we have the frontier of the mind, and they go off and explore the wonderful world of alcohol and drugs, but that's no frontier. It's just another way for us to fool ourselves. And we've created this phony frontier with computers, which allows people to, you know, think they've escaped. A frontier with access fees?”
Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“In every moment there's the possibility of a better future, but you people won't believe it. And because you won't believe it you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality.”
Hugh Laurie - Nix

“Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!”
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

“- Meryl Burbank: You let me out, Truman. You're not right in the head. You want to destroy yourself you do it on your own.
- Truman Burbank: I think I'd like a little company.”

Laura Linney - Meryl Burbank
Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank

“For years, we've been trying to combine the bloodlines. And for years, we've failed. It was useless. Even at the cellular level, our species seemed destined to destroy each other.”
Erwin Leder - Singe

“I find one should never look for admirers while at the same time one is falling to bits.”
Claude Rains - Job Skeffington

“- John Watson: What have I got myself into?
- Sherlock Holmes: The adventure of a lifetime, Watson.”
Alan Cox - Dr. Watson
Nicholas Rowe - Sherlock Holmes

“When man meets a force he can't destroy, he destroys himself. What a plague you are.”

Danny Huston - Marlow

“In one way or another, I've always suffered. I didn't know why, exactly. But I do know that I'm not so scared of suffering now. I feel more than I've ever felt, and I've found someone to feel with, to play with, to love, in a way that feels right for me.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Lee Holloway