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Quotes About Self-harm

The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself,
~ Adrian Levy
Your vicious enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unbridled soul.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
We injure ourselves by the negative ideas which we entertain.
~ Joseph Murphy
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
~ Danish Proverb
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
~ Aesop
Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.
~ Koo Stark
I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.
~ Marcus Brigstocke
Girls are always saying things like, "I'm so unhappy that I'm going to overdose on aspirin," but they'd be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.
~ Rachel Klein
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?
~ Primo Levi
If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.
~ Ilana Mercer
Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
Singing songs that make you slit your wrists
~ Gerard Way
In the course of this, in what seemed to many of its wisest minds an act of wilful self-harm, the English had unilaterally cut themselves off from the most powerful institution in Europe, so
~ William Dalrymple
A sword in a madman's hand, and the word of God in some wicked man's mouth, are used much alike—to hurt only themselves and their best friends with.
~ William Gurnall
The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness
~ Osamu Dazai
I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.
~ Abby Norman
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~ Willy Russell
You know, I observed a man who masturbated until he bled. Did he want to do that?
~ David Wong
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
~ Washington Irving
It's all broken glass inside me, she once wrote in her journal, when she was in high school. I breathe, and I cut myself.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
~ Dana Hill
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
~ Debra Winger