Quotes About Self-harming

The severe defeat and collapse of time and life define such a context that you receive nothing, except self-harming and self-disgrace; indeed, it is a task of fools and morally dead ones.

The new, wellspring of all bad dreams. Driven by a self-harming compulsion, I listen closely to analysis and dissent.

Her fight with alcohol had made for contentious exchanges and, if that were possible, even more contentious silences. Tony, empathetic to the point of self-harming, felt the pain of her abstinence as powerfully as anything he'd ever endured personally.

If you want to help people, ask why they are in so much pain that they are driven (there's that word again) to escape from it through ultimately self-harming habits or substances.