Centered Quote by J. Kenner

Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how…

— Eugene Gendlin

“Well how many troubles should equal a legitimate reason for self-mutilation? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? And how monumental must these troubles be? There’s probably…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“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 yourself.”

— Marilee Strong

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

— Anonymous

“He even learned to crave the pain. It meant he was still alive, still surviving. If he could handle the pain, control his reaction…

— C.J. Roberts

“I know you crave pain because I made you feel like a whore. That voyeuristic stuff was hot, Mryna, but I'd rather treasure you.…

— Olivia Cunning

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. "If…

— J. Kenner

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

“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

“The colleague, no doubt, was not a connoisseur of the self-punishment, sad to think. This type of hygiene was foreign to her, no doubt.…

— Ben Marcus