Self Harm Quotes

• There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Suicide, Pain, Suffering

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.

  Eminem

  Suicide, Pain, Cutting

  Song: Stan, Album: The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000

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• You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

  Princess Diana

  Hurt, Pain, Trying

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• My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Pain, Will To Survive, Suffering

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• Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

  David Bowie

  Suicide, Insanity, Razors

  Song: Young Americans

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• A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Suicide, Drug, Dumb

  Song: Coma White

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• There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin, that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear.

  Demi Lovato

  Cutting, Mind, Skins

  "Demi Lovato Opens Up". www.self.com. August 16, 2012 |.

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• got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

  Tori Amos

  Suicide, Boys, Razors

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• Some people go shopping - I cut myself.

  Angelina Jolie

  Cutting, Shopping, People

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• ...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Broken, Looks

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Kids, Hard Work, Cutting

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• I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.

  Karen Carpenter

  Suicide, Body, May

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• It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

  Neil Gaiman

  Suicide, Bad Day, Want

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• Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.

  Emily Giffin

  Goodbye, Baby, Fighting

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• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

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• My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

  Johnny Depp

  Tattoo, Artist, Knives

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• I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood.

  Marilyn Manson

  Letting Go, Thinking, Form

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• Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Suicide, Sleep

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.79, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Girl, Pain, Will To Survive

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• When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

  Christina Ricci

  Feel Better, Ideas, Two

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• Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

  Caitlin Moran

  Knives, Needs, World

  Caitlin Moran (2014). “How to Build a Girl”, p.216, Random House

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• Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

  Jay McInerney

  Suicide, Arms, Loathing

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• One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Suicide, Lying

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• They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

  Marilyn Manson

  Suicide, Cutting, Today

  Song: The Fight Song

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• She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Going Away, Self Injury

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.90, Penguin

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