Best Self Injury Quotes

58 Self Injury quotes by 42 unique authors

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
I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie. — Emma Forrest
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out. — Laurie Halse Anderson
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
Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within. — Bob Dylan
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
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
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. — Tom Waits
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
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
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
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. — John Keats
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
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
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
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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