Self mutilation Quotes

“By his stripes you are healed.”

— Melody Carlson

“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

“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

— J. L. B. Smith

“I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck.”

— Christopher Moore

We couldnt imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and…

— Jeffery Eugenides

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

— Donald Barthelme

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

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

Ripped apart, limb by limb, shattereing bones, heart caving in. Self mutilation, scar after scar, empty and having warn like tar.

— SangFroid Stalker

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

“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

Almost all my life Ive been frightened and afraid, Ive been best friends with a razor blade with the fissure on my…

— Anonymous

“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

I hold the blade in trembling hands Prepare to make it, but Just then the phone rang, I never had the nerve…

— Pink Floyd

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that…

— Bell Hooks

“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

“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

“For the first time in months, I felt together. Sharp. In hurting myself, I had at last found a way to release…

— Victoria Leatham

Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“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

“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

“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

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention…

— Anonymous

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

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

“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

“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