I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Everyone is sleeping while she remains awake and leaves reminders on her body of how much she hates herself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all… — Majandra Delfino Copy Share Image
“and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know.... explode,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is… — Sia Furler 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
When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so… — Richey Edwards 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
“Further evidence for the pathogenic role of dissociation has come from a largescale clinical and community study of traumatized people conducted by… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Real cutters dont cut for attention or for the pain, real cutters cut for the satisfaction of being in control something. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes it hurts more to smile in front of everyone, then to cry all alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Somehow however just knowing that I could fully expect unhappiness to return – if not predictably then nevertheless reliably – was strangely… — Caroline Kettlewell 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
