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Quotes About Self-harm

I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured. But I was out of places to write, slicing myself between my toes—bad, cry—like a junkie looking for one last vein. Vanish did it for me. I'd saved the neck, such a nice prime spot, for one final good cutting. Then I turned myself in.
~ Gillian Flynn
I was lying in bed thinking of killing myself, a hobby of mine.
~ Gillian Flynn
And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. Just fo feel. Just to feel something.
~ Grant Morrison
Authorities that erect major obstacles to migration - or place severe restrictions on migrants' work opportunities - inflict needless economic self-harm, as they impose barriers to having their labor needs met in an orderly, legal fashion. Worse still, they unintentionally encourage illegal migration.
~ Antonio Guterres
Un paciente que sufre el síndrome de Münchhausen es una persona que se hace daño a sí misma para que los demás le hagan caso. Una persona que ha descubierto que le prestan más atención si está enferma.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
The peak age of poisoning deaths in 2011 was around fifty, up from the low forties in 2003, the late thirties in 1993, the early thirties in 1983, and the early twenties in 1973.57 Do the subtractions and you find that in every decade it's the members of the generation born between 1953 and 1963 who are drugging themselves to death.
~ Steven Pinker
Sabes esas chicas que se cortan los brazos con una cuchilla de afeitar, llenándose de heridas y más heridas? Lo hacen para liberar el dolor. Están tan llenas de él que únicamente así superan esa ansiedad.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.
~ Chester Brown
We're alcoholics. We're generally satisfied just to hurt ourselves.
~ Billie Letts
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
~ Akiva ben Joseph
My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
Beyond a certain point, hope is more than self-indulgence. It's self-harm.
~ Simon R. Green
The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.
~ Meg Rosoff
We're so careful to see that no one gets hurt. No one, that is, but ourselves.
~ Melody Beattie
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 partner could not entertain being crushed under a truck, just as a cathartic exercise? What important piece of her brain was missing that deprived her of such, well, deeply necessary acts of physical editing ?
~ Ben Marcus
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
~ Bertrand Russell
There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.
~ Sylvia Plath
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenceless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
~ Sylvia Plath
But when it cam right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. I t was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
~ Sylvia Plath
Her immediate, instinctive response was to distract herself with physical pain. She wanted to go to the kitchen and get a knife and cut herself to relieve the pressure and clear her mind.
~ Tami Hoag
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
~ Kate Millett