Self-destruction quotes
106 self-destruction quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
“- John Connor: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
- The Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
- John Connor: Yeah. Major drag, huh?” - From the movie: The Addiction
“To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self.”
- From the movie: Mighty Aphrodite
“Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.”
- From the movie: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
“Favorite pastime of man is fooling himself.”
- From the movie: In the Mouth of Madness
“Nothing surprises me anymore. We fucked up the air, the water, we fucked up each other. Why don't we just finish the job by flushing our brains down the toilet?”
- From the movie: Secretary
“I slipped and cut too deep. I'm not sure how I could have misjudged. I've been doing it since seventh grade.”
- From the movie: Secretary
- From the movie: Husbands and Wives
“I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because, you know, they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.”
- From the movie: Contact
- Panel member: If you were to meet these Vegans, and were permitted only one question to ask of them, what would it be?
- Ellie Arroway: Well, I suppose it would be, "How did you do it? How did you evolve, how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?". - From the movie: The Skulls
“You've been digging, Luke, and if you keep digging you'll be digging your own grave.”
- From the movie: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
“You must learn to govern your passions; they will be your undoing.”
- From the movie: Ride with the Devil
“Don't think you are a good man. The thought will spoil you.”
- From the movie: Down by Law
“You always making big plans for tomorrow. You know why? Because you always fucking up today.”
- From the movie: Spider-Man 2
“- Peter Parker: You once spoke to me about intelligence. You said it was a gift to be used for the greater good...
- Doc Ock: A privilege...
- Peter Parker: These things have turned you into something else. Don't listen to them.” - From the movie: Coup De Torchon
“We all kill what we love.”
- From the movie: Get Smart
- From the movie: Young Sherlock Holmes
“I always suspected that becoming a friend of yours would end in disaster!”
- From the movie: Paycheck
“The machine predicts a war and we go to war to avert it. It predicts a plague; we herd all the sick together, create a plague. Whatever future this predicts, we make it happen. We give over control of our lives completely. Seeing the future will destroy us.”
- From the movie: Hairspray
- From the movie: Battle in Seattle
- From the movie: The Beverly Hillbillies
“I'm ruined!”
- From the movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
“I have been witness to a world consumed by hatred and bent on self-destruction, watched as we have taken what was to be a paradise and failed in our responsibilites as its steward.”
- From the movie: Alone and Restless
- From the movie: Angels Over Broadway
“As I understand from your communication, Mr. Engle, you're on the brink of self-destruction. May I shake your hand? A brilliant idea! I speak as one who has destroyed himself a score of times.”
- From the movie: Fade to Black
“When I first went to Hollywood, I had a legion of yahoos, all plotting my down fall. It was a waste of time, of course. I was perfectly capable of destroying myself.”
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