Depressing Quote by SangFroid Stalker

“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

Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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 Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage…

— Bell Hooks

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

— Donald Barthelme

“I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked…

— Wally Lamb

“How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible if one's…

— Ben Marcus

“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

“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