Self-destruction quotes

106 self-destruction quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “- Cord: Who's torturing you this way?
    - Man-in-Oil: No-one.
    - Cord: Isn't that barrel filled with oil?
    - Man-in-Oil: Of course. I filled it myself.
    - Cord: You?
    - Man-in-Oil: I filled it myself and I got in it myself. I've been in here ten years.”

    Jeff Cooper - Cord
    Eli Wallach - Man-in-Oil
    [Tag:self-destruction, torture]
  • “You know I get the feeling like a whipped dog some days. Some night I'm gonna bite back, I swear!”
    Nick Nolte - Wade Whitehouse
    [Tag:feeling, self-destruction]
  • “- Caroline: What did the doctor say?
    - Adam: That I'm not allowed to stick knives in my stomach.”

    Marisa Tomei - Caroline
    Christian Slater - Adam
    [Tag:doctors, self-destruction]
  • “Do you think you're the first person to lose someone? That's what life is all about, loss! But we don't use it as an excuse to destroy ourselves. We go on, all of us.”
    Gene Hackman - Nicholas Earp
    [Tag:living, loss, self-destruction]
  • “- Rosemary Cross: Well, you pulled it off.
    - Max Fischer: It went okay. At least nobody got hurt.
    - Rosemary Cross: Except you.”

    Olivia Williams - Rosemary Cross
    Jason Schwartzman - Max Fischer
    [Tag:pain, self-destruction]
  • “General, do you really believe that the enemy would attack without provocation, using so many missiles, bombers, and subs so that we would have no choice but to totally annihilate them? General, you are listening to a machine! Do the world a favor and don't act like one.”
    John Wood - Falken
    [Tag:enemy, self-destruction, strategy]
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