Self Injury Quotes

58 quotes by 42 authors

• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. — Lord Byron
• My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right. — Anne Sexton
• I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful. — Margaret Atwood
• A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. — Adrienne Rich
• And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that… — Arthur Rimbaud
• The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. — Joyce Carol Oates
• The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical… — Albert Schweitzer
• There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV.… — Ani DiFranco
• Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror… — Clive Barker
• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid… — Joyce Carol Oates
• I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself… — Tori Amos
• A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. — Leonard Cohen
• A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor. — William Shakespeare
• You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
• There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy… — John Keats
• 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 bruises. — Majandra Delfino
• Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why… — Michael Donaghy
• There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a… — Geoff Nicholson
• No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars… — Unknown Author
• I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself...It's something I've… — Richey Edwards

Who Wrote These Self Injury Quotes

42 authors contributed a total of 58 Self Injury Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 6 Self Injury Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson
• 5 Self Injury Quotes by Emma Forrest
• 3 Self Injury Quotes by Richey Edwards
• 3 Self Injury Quotes by Gillian Flynn
• 2 Self Injury Quotes by Patience
• 2 Self Injury Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
• 2 Self Injury Quotes by John Keats
• 1 Self Injury Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Tori Amos
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Tom Waits
• 1 Self Injury Quote by The Forgotten
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Susanna Kaysen
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Simone de Beauvoir
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Senoraroy
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Russell Brand
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Natasha Bedingfield
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Michael Donaghy
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Marya Hornbacher
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Majandra Delfino
• 1 Self Injury Quote by Lord Byron