Self-destruction quotes

106 self-destruction quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “What is it with you, huh? What are you looking for? C'mon, Max, everybody's looking for something. You're happy out there, are you? Eh? Wandering? One day blurring into another? You're a scavenger, Max. You're a maggot. Did you know that? You're living off the corpse of the old world. Tell me your story, Max. C'mon. Tell me your story. What...” (continue)(continue reading)

    Michael Preston - Pappagallo
    [Tag:grief, loss, self-destruction]
  • “I used to think you hated me because you thought I wasn't good enough for Lori, but that's not it. You tear me down to make yourself feel better, because you really hate yourself, which is kind of pathetic when you actually stop and think about it.”

    Chris Marquette - Charlie Linderman
    [Tag:hatred, self-destruction]
  • “Your simplicity long ended, when you took Persian mistresses and children, and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels... Because you have fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men... do you not see... and you, as well as I, know, that as the years decline and the memories stale and all your great victories fade it...” (continue)(continue reading)

    Colin Farrell - Alexander
    [Tag:greed, self-destruction, treason]
  • From the animation: Shrek
    “- Donkey: You're so wrapped up in layers onion boy, you're afraid of your own feelings!
    - Shrek: Go away!
    - Donkey: See? There you are, doing it again! Just like you did to Fiona! All she ever did was like you maybe, even love you!”

    Eddie Murphy - Donkey
    Mike Myers - Shrek
    [Tag:fear, feeling, self-destruction]
  • “I wish I'd never been born.”
    Nastassja Kinski - Tess
    [Tag:self-destruction, wishes]
  • “I know what happened to you, and what you think it cost you. But the son who left me many moons ago in search of his manhood came back to me a drunken, self pitying, overgrown child. You are a terrible example for our people and a disgrace to your mother. You have an opportunity now to do some good.”

    Betty Carvalho - Grandma
    [Tag:attitude, opportunity, self-destruction]
  • “- Paul McDaggett: Stupid fools. Don't you know what you've done to us? Those androids are programmed with a thermal failsafe device.
    - Dr. Marie Lazarus: They're made to self-destruct?
    - Paul McDaggett: In fifteen seconds, everything within twenty yards of where we're standing will be atomised. We're dead, you stupid slag!
    - Robocop: Don't...” (continue)
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    John Castle - Paul McDaggett
    Jill Hennessy - Dr. Marie Lazarus
    Robert John Burke - Robocop
    [Tag:death, self-destruction, technology]
  • “Holmes, remember what I always taught you: control your emotions or they will be your downfall.”
    Anthony Higgins - Professor Rathe
    [Tag:control, emotion, self-destruction]
  • “- Nicole:I want to be good for you.
    - Carlos: You are good for me.
    - Nicole: Not if I keep taking you away from everything you've worked so hard for. I want to make things better for once, not worst. Cause I really want to be with you, I can't keep running away from things.
    - Carlos: I'm here for you.
    - Nicole: I know you are.”

    Kirsten Dunst - Nicole Oakley
    Jay Hernandez - Carlos Nuñez
    [Tag:love, sadness, self-destruction]
  • “- Dallas: After everything I heard about you, I thought you were gonna be more like... me. But you are a sheep like all the rest.
    - Casey: There will come a time, when even you can't handle it any more. You'll pack it up... or you'll put a bullet in that pretty little head of yours, or someone else will.”

    Paulina Porizkova - Dallas
    Thomas Jane - Casey
    [Tag:self-destruction, self-examination]
  • “The high jump is a masochists event. It always ends on failure.”
    Scott Glenn - Terry Tingloff
    [Tag:failure, self-destruction]
  • “- Riff Randell: Kate, I'm getting some static.
    - Kate Rambeau: Not as much as you're going to get.”

    P.J. Soles - Riff Randell
    Dey Young - Kate Rambeau
    [Tag:danger, electricity, self-destruction]
  • “You're a very intelligent girl. You have a lot of admirable qualities. But one day maybe you'll learn that being smart and doing whatever you need to do to get ahead, and stepping on other people to get there... well, there's a whole lot more to life than that. And in the end you're only cheating yourself.”

    Matthew Broderick - Jim McAllister
    [Tag:intelligence, quality, self-destruction]
  • “- Trooper Hancock: You just threw your life down the toilet, girl.
    - Nash: When the truth comes down, I'll be just fine.”

    Henry Darrow - Trooper Hancock
    Jennifer Jason Leigh - Nash
    [Tag:self-destruction, truth]
  • “- Aragorn: I swore to protect you.
    - Frodo: Can you protect me from yourself?”

    Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn
    Elijah Wood - Frodo
    [Tag:caring, safety, self-destruction]
  • “Always remember: others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
    Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon
    [Tag:hatred, self-destruction]
  • “- Pvt. Cooper: What scares you?
    - Cpl. Bruce Campbell: The self-destructive nature of the human condition.”

    Kevin McKidd - Pvt. Cooper
    Thomas Lockyer - Cpl. Bruce Campbell
    [Tag:human nature, self-destruction]
  • “- Sera: Is drinking a way of killing yourself?
    - Ben Sanderson: Or, is killing myself a way of drinking?”

    Elisabeth Shue - Sera
    Nicolas Cage - Ben Sanderson
    [Tag:drinking, self-destruction, suicide]
  • “Do you realize what you've done? You've taken a woman who loves you, one of the greatest women in the world and thrown her away. I lost her too, but I will get over it because I am shallow and self-centered. But you, you won't, because you are complex. You will feel terrible anguish for the rest of your life. This is turning out to be a pretty...” (continue)(continue reading)

    Alexander Godunov - Max Beissart
    [Tag:attitude, self-destruction, selfishness]
  • “Axel, you are the Super Bowl of self-abuse!”
    Lisa Freeman - Nurse Morgan
    [Tag:self-destruction]
  • “Don't be afraid. I'll move back over here. I'll open the doors. I'm going to die. Two weeks, maybe three. My body is breaking down. I bleed. I don't heal anymore. I need blood. I need the love that's in your blood..”
    Jude Law - Steven Grlscz
    [Tag:body, feeling, self-destruction]
  • “I'm tired and I don't see things the way that I used to. Everything is fucking strange and it's all completely out of control and I'm frightened. And maybe if you all could give me some real help. Not your pity or generosity but some help. If I don't say this now I may never say it. Everything is going very fast. It's completely out of control....” (continue)(continue reading)
    Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce
    [Tag:helping, self-destruction, suicide]
  • “I woke up one morning, and when I looked in the mirror I noticed my nose was bent over entirely onto one side of my face. So, I got a hammer, and started banging my nose back to a right angle with my face. Suddenly, I looked at myself in the mirror, hammer in hand, blood streaming down my chin, and I realized my life was no longer manageable.”
    M. Emmet Walsh - Richard Dirks
    [Tag:life, managing, self-destruction]
  • “- Swan: Why'd you do it? Why'd you waste Cyrus?
    - Luther: No reason. I just... like doing things like that!”

    Michael Beck - Swan
    David Patrick Kelly - Luther
    [Tag:killing, pleasure, self-destruction]
  • “- Worth: I don't wanna die, I'm just being realistic. Do you think they'd go to all the trouble to build this thing if we could just walk out?
    - Quentin: Do you think they would have left us clues and let us beat it so far if there wasn't a way out?”

    David Hewlett - Worth
    Maurice Dean Wint - Quentin
    [Tag:escape, self-destruction]
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