Best Self Injury Quotes
58 Self Injury quotes by 42 unique authors
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Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments,…
— Emma Forrest
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I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie.
— Emma Forrest
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For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof.…
— Gillian Flynn
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It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to…
— Gillian Flynn
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I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose.…
— Gillian Flynn
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Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered.…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my…
— Janet Fitch
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Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife,…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
— Bob Dylan
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When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else,…
— Caroline Knapp
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Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a…
— Sylvia Plath
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I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
— Tom Waits
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My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.
— Natasha Bedingfield
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That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world…
— Chester Bennington
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
— John Keats
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears…
— Oscar Wilde
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We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.
— Jodi Picoult
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