Quotes About Self-harm

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

My Tentacles have Tentacles and I'm never going to cut them off. But my Anchor, that's easy: it's killing myself. That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.

I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck.

We violate no body so much as our own: towards it we display the perversity of the cat that constantly rips its wounds open.

Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.

But even though there´s no more hope, again there´s no need to harm yourself, despite your feeling as if there´s no ground beneath you and no choice in any direction. But when we do let go, how wonderful. We discover that the darkness is actually full of light.

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

Shooting yourself in the leg is healthier than in the heart, too. Doesn't mean I would recommend doing it.

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

But what happens if such a patient, say myself, for instance, has rarely if ever experienced a normal state of functioning? What happens if such a patient has spent much of her life in mental hospitals, both pursuing and being pursued by one's illness after another? What happens if "regular life" to such a person has always meant cutting one's arms, or gagging?

He was careless of his life; careless of whether he lived or died, but not actively intent on self harm.

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

I cut myself. He didn't do it. And I'd been taking drugs—your drugs, or getting them from your boyfriends—my whole life. I wasn't your innocent little baby.

She remembered that they were never sober. Shane drank to seek oblivion; she stayed high to outrun pain. They did it together—but she cut herself in private.

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.

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.

almost all people who hurt themselves on purpose do so at least in part to regulate their emotions.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.