Quotes About Bulimia And Anorexia

#1. We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

Marya Hornbacher

#2. I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

Alice Cary

#3. My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.

Sophia Amoruso

#4. The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

A. J. McLean

#5. The worst part is watching someone you love love someone else

Sheena Hutchinson

#6. We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.

Meg Haston

#7. Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

Marya Hornbacher

#8. I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

Marya Hornbacher

#9. You were always an underdog in a videogame, but always guaranteed to win if you just kept plugging away, learned the moves, knew when to Save and when to Quit.

Danny Wallace

#10. The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11. We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

Marya Hornbacher

#12. We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.

Philip K. Dick

#13. If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.

Bethany Pierce

#14. I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

Richard Roundtree

#15. I hung back at the curb, but it's hard to go unnoticed when you are a powder blue vintage convertible with a cowboy, an Indian, a brunette and a dog inside.

Craig Johnson

#16. yet still I crave the sight of my own hypnotic gaze reflecting out at me from the shared mirror of anorexia and bulimia, number to life and reality, existing only in my self-made tortured state

Carol Lee

#17. For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

Bipasha Basu

#18. A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

Amy Winehouse

#19. But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

Deborah Hautzig

#20. A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

Marcel Pagnol

#21. People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.

Matt Haig

#22. Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Tracey Gold