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The sweetness of self-denial and self-control,
We hold within ourselves the medicinal materials to mend self-inflicted injuries sustained while traversing the thorny obstacle course of life.
It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
Self-seeking is self-destruction
She could have shot herself, scratched herself or indulged in other forms of self-mutilation, but she chose what she probably felt was the weakest option-to at least endure the discomfort of the weather.
Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
The self is hateful.
Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.
It wasn't an accident.
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation reinforces the qualities or defects that we attribute to others. From
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Anyone with a way of thinking that sees and recognizes nothing but their own "EGO" has the potential to destroy their "SELF".
I am a victim of my own behavior.
But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled up within, churned and frenzied by the overwhelming realisation that things should not have been this way; that there was nothing inevitable about this outcome.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.
All deaths are one's own.
We cut ourselves. Not by accident, we do it purposely, and regularly, because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has become a habit.
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving.
He'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.Hurt-- Miguel Ruiz
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
I must say ... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
There are only a few things worse than having to face up to the fact that the predicaments one finds oneself in are usually the results of one's own foolish actions.
The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...
Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you're willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even something terrible in the imperfect structure of the universe.
Life is an addiction and self-preservation is its sweetest high
Shame internalized can lead to agony.
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
Sometimes people set themselves up to be hurt by a situation, instead of hurting themselves directly. To absolve the blame.
It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife.
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame rested solely with me.
This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his concern, unwomanly, a deeper injury to his own abandoned assumptions than any he had contemplated.
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
A lifetime of hurt in one act of vengeance.
Life is beyond self.
You cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
You may think you are harming others and some of you take pleasure in this, but in reality you are harming yourself hundreds of times more than you have harmed anyone else.
All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage
Self-destruction is a taste I've savored much of my life.
Perhaps that was his way of punishing himself. Masochism. People torture themselves more terribly than anyone else could.
The cure to your self is that you are not yours.
To harm another is to harm oneself
What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
Intentional sin causes scars.
Every action that you take - that your disorder tells you to take - is self-harming in the short and long term.
Pain is erased when inflicted upon others.
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord.
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was ... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.
Some situations you cause yourself.
SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF
Self is for sacrifice and service.
Self-loathing is hell.
The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.
The self is made, not given
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.
There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.
The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort
Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says "I am a mistake" instead of saying "I made a mistake.
When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
i didn't know why
i split myself open
for other knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterward
So something that never should have happened did, all because of my thoughts and actions. A clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship. I was the one who caused it, and I should probably get the death penalty. Or maybe what I should say is I'm the one who pronounced the death sentence on myself
The loss of one's self is the hardest to bear
unselfing themselves
If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me.
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
Everything that happens to you is self-created.
The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.
Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
Sometimes we punish ourselves the most.
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.
A lot is being done to cure physical self-harm, and yet it's a by-product of mental self-harm!
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.
Self is for service.
It's a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always longing to kill oneself but being kept by one's watchful intelligence from killing oneself, so that the condition is stabilized in the form of lifelong controlled suffering, it's an art possessed only by this people and those belonging to it.
This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.
Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.
It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Loving the wrong person is self-harm