Injury Quotes - Page 20

• Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Glasses, Two, Clothes

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

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• The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Blood, Knives, Rivers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.168, Penguin

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• Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Home, Next Week, Two

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.191, Scholastic UK

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• I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Skins, Lines, Three

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.60, Scholastic UK

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• I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cat

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• Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

  Bob Dylan

  Evil, Skins, Steps

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

  Caroline Knapp

  Crush, Passion, Night

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• Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Cat, Dark

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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• I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

  Tom Waits

  Arms, Nails, Scratches

  Song: Kentucky Avenue, Album: Blue Valentine

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• My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Heart, Skins, Negative

  FaceBook post by Natasha Bedingfield from Jun 30, 2012

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• That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Mean, Kids, Cutting

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• Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.

  Chester Bennington

  Hurt, School, Kids

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• Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Suffering, Teach

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.611

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• A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Risk, Tickets

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.440

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• I found the best way is to use Chiropractors, not only after injury, but also before injury.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Use, Way, Found

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• Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Reality, Soldier, Brain

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• Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Fighting, Rivals

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• I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Data, Shoes

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• The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of which it is woven. I wish to say particularly to the young men who are here that you cannot indulge in any unbecoming behavior without injury to the beauty of the fabric of your lives. Immoral acts of any kind will introduce an ugly thread. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. Foul and profane language will rob the pattern of its beauty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Men, Indulge In

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• A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Skulls, Doubt, Causes

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• Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Taken, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.59, Advaita Ashrama

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• The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

  Hosea Ballou

  Punishment, Mind, Done

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• Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Insomnia, Glamorous

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

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• Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/ and have changed. There is no need to turn round and round in endless questioning; find yourself and everything will fall into its proper place.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hurt, Serenity, Let It Go

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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