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Quotes About Self-harm

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
~ Amy Tan
The human breathes in radiation since that becomes a trend of self-harm, risking life in scientific artifacts.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Il ne m'aurait jamais fait de mal, il n'était capable que de s'en faire à lui-même.
~ Elena Ferrante
What behaviors does your child exhibit when that happens? Some kids cry, or pout, or sulk, or withdraw. While that's the "easy" end of the spectrum, those kids still need our help. Some hold their breath, scream, swear, kick, hit, have panic attacks, or destroy property. Some run away, bite, cut themselves, vomit, use weapons, or worse. This end of the spectrum is much more concerning and dangerous.
~ Ross W. Greene
You don't have senses so you can impair them with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. You don't have a life so you can make bad decisions and harm yourself and or others, smarten up.
~ Ryan Pack
Self-harm, my soul, you are doing self-harm: and you will have no more opportunity for self-respect.
~ Marcus Aurelius
You know what they say about hitting yourself over the head with a hammer, she would tell Mamie. It feels good when you stop.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I shall gash myself all over. I shall tattoo myself. I want to become as hideous as a Mongol. You'll see, I'll go screaming through the streets.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
~ Lorna Luft
Brexit is not, thankfully, a question of war. But, like Iraq, Brexit is an act of unprovoked self-harm and a massive strategic mistake that threatens Britain's credibility and authority in the world.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
~ Sigmund Freud
Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.
~ Aubrey Dark, His
A fool's tongue," Bruce Waltke wryly notes, "is long enough to cut his own throat."4
~ John Piper
You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.
~ Barry Lyga
It makes me sad; I had to stop seeing my fans. It is like mental self harm to go and read my DMs.
~ Ashnikko
So many means of self-destruction, so little time.
~ Marya Hornbacher
It's the feeling that one is a cog in a machine that doesn't care. Burnout makes people angry, depressed, and unable to do or enjoy doing the work of patient care. Burnout is loneliness, isolation, and an invitation to addiction, alcoholism, and other forms of self-harm.
~ Mark Vonnegut
In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself
~ Goitsemang Mvula
Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless. ANDREW SOLOMON, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
~ Jonathan Haidt
At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted to chaos; I was addicted to self-harm, and I had to seek help at the hospital.
~ Ginger Zee
I used to get these horrible feelings; like, I just wanted to rip my body apart, and I don't want to have to go through that experience again. It's really, really awful.
~ Chelsea Manning
Thirteen years old, I thought to myself, but I felt a spear of admiration for the girl. When I'd been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma's sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice, all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.
~ Gillian Flynn
When I'd been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma's sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.
~ Gillian Flynn