Quotes About Self-infliction

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

When you inflict suffering on yourself in the name of some story, it give you a choice: 'Either the story is true, or I am a gullible fool.' When you inflict suffering on others, you are also given a choice: 'Either the story is true, or I am a cruel villain.' And just as we don't want to admit we are fools, we also don't want to admit we are villains, so we prefer to believe that the story is true.

When you inflict suffering on yourself in the name of some story, it gives you a choice: "Either the story is true or I am a gullible fool." When you inflict suffering on others, you are also given a choice: "Either the story is true or I am a cruel villain." And just as we don't want to admit we are fools, we also don't want to admit we are villains. We prefer to believe that the story is true.

The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

all done with a will. The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.

Why are you hitting yourself, Jessie Kay? Huh? Huh? Why?

I believe that informed adults should be allowed to inflict whatever suffering they wish - on themselves. But we are not entitled to harm other people.

The crime that is latent in us we must inflict on ourselves, I say. I nod and nod, driving the message home. Not on others, I say.

The hell you pass through is not as severe as the one you would create for yourself out of it.

You do it to yourself

I don't work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

My love runs deeper than the wounds I inflict upon myself, deeper than the sweat that pours from my body. My love runs deeper than the tears that roll down my face. My hate runs deeper than the wounds I inflict upon myself, deeper than the sweat that pours from my body. My hate runs deeper than the tears that roll down my face.

What causes human beings to inflict upon themselves these stupid little scissor snips of unhappy remembrance?

When I cut, I'm the one controlling the pain. I know where it's coming from. I know that it's me who's doing it, me and no one else.

But there was no wound she could give me that I had not already given myself.