Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

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…

— Clive Barker

“I’m glad to see you’re not mutilated in any way,” he said. “A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come…

— Jasper Fforde

Well, of course there’s my own experience of being mutilated as a little child. Having gone through this cruel practice and all the long-term…

— Waris Dirie

Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

— Steven Levenkron

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the…

— Mary Docter

“Any kind of modification, whether it’s to alter physical features, like cosmetic surgery, or to decorate, like piercings and tattoos, cause some degree of…

— Helena Hunting

“You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the first time,…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“All I want is for you to stand here and watch the people you love be horribly mutilated. Is that too much to ask?”

— Brenna Yovanoff

I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did not know…

— Waris Dirie

Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental…

— Susan Sontag

“If people are honest with themselves when they choose a tattoo, the art will represent them better than anything that will ever come out…

— Troy Holloway

“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave…

— Albert Camus