We couldnt imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth. — J. L. B. Smith Copy Share Image
“I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of… — Marilee Strong Copy Share Image
“If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I hold the blade in trembling hands Prepare to make it, but Just then the phone rang, I never had the nerve… — Pink Floyd Copy Share Image
“I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always… — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
Almost all my life Ive been frightened and afraid, Ive been best friends with a razor blade with the fissure on my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my… — Caroline Kettlewell Copy Share Image
“If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The colleague, no doubt, was not a connoisseur of the self-punishment, sad to think. This type of hygiene was foreign to her,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Well how many troubles should equal a legitimate reason for self-mutilation? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? And how monumental must these troubles be?… — Caroline Kettlewell Copy Share Image
“You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the… — Caroline Kettlewell Copy Share Image
“For the first time in months, I felt together. Sharp. In hurting myself, I had at last found a way to release… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Cynthia is a 15-year-old high school student who is doing quite well. She is a very special person and I am very… — Kaile Stewart Copy Share Image
“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
Ripped apart, limb by limb, shattereing bones, heart caving in. Self mutilation, scar after scar, empty and having warn like tar. — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
