Top 100 Quotes About Self Harm
#1. Beyond a certain point, hope is more than self-indulgence. It's self-harm.
Simon R. Green
#2. Love can be a form of self-harm.
Craving affection can devastate
Mohamed Ghazi
#3. When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.
Christopher Dines
#4. My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything ... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life.
Demi Lovato
#5. A lot is being done to cure physical self-harm, and yet it's a by-product of mental self-harm!
Maddy Malhotra
#6. I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm.
Benedict Smith
#7. Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.
Caitlin Moran
#8. We want to be clear: The skills we [teach] you for managing your emotions and controlling your urges to self-harm will never be quite as effective or satisfying as self-harm in the short run.
Kim L. Gratz
#9. Loving the wrong person is self-harm
R H Sin
#10. Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. 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
#12. Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me.
S.A. Tawks
#13. I know that isn't always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it's hard for people to rise above things.
Andy Biersack
#14. According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.
Matt Fitzgerald
#15. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
Sharon Salzberg
#16. Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
David Bowie
#17. I have found a way to beat myself
I win by losing, something like that
I'm told that I'm stupid
So ok, I'll be stupid
If I can't register the pain
Then it's not there
I'm not so stupid after all
I'll show them
Henry Rollins
#18. Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?
Jeff Lindsay
#19. This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.
Johnny Rich
#20. Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.
Leila Sales
#22. I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me ...
Emilie Autumn
#23. One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#24. The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, and make a clean slice. It tells me the words that I have been begging to hear: this will make it ok.
Amanda Steele
#25. people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself
Rupi Kaur
#26. America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.
Jonathan Haidt
#27. People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa
Kathleen Glasgow
#28. That night I did it. I used a utility knife from our garage. It was amazing. For that brief moment, all the tension, anxiety, stress I put on myself disappeared. It went up in a cloud of smoke and my head was finally clear after months of endless internal battles.
S.M. Koz
#29. The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth.
Criss Jami
#30. This might surprise you, but one of the best ways to manage your emotions is simply to experience that emotion and let it run its course.
Kim L. Gratz
#31. We both knew what it was to hurt our bodies. It's a strange reason to bond with someone, but I think we both needed to feel understood, and, even though we couldn't love ourselves, we could love each other.
Melissa C. Water
#32. I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.
Albert Borris
#33. 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
#34. The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209) ... ... The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).
Marvin Gaye
#35. Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body's protecting itself, saying, "No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.
Taylor Rhodes
#36. And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to feel this kind of grief, and she doesn't know if she can handle it, because it really hurts, hurts her more than the razor ever could.
Julia Hoban
#37. The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.
Dada Bhagwan
#38. I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?
Kathleen Glasgow
#39. Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
Gautama Buddha
#40. I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.
Ja Rule
#41. Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.
Bryant McGill
#43. Got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.
Tori Amos
#44. A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.
Janny Wurts
#45. How could a little nick control something I had no control over? It wasn't until he wiped it clean and applied a band-aid that the physical pain of the cut took hold, but I didn't even care. That was a minimal price to pay in order to lessen the internal pain.
S.M. Koz
#46. Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.
Sia Furler
#47. Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.
Goswami Kriyananda
#48. Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
Jay McInerney
#49. If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
#50. The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Pema Chodron
#51. That's what was in my head in the attic when I took broken glass from my tender kit and began to cut myself into tiny pieces.
Kathleen Glasgow
#52. Each time i face a catastrophe i draw a new scar to it , and only when it fades i know that the pain ended
Me
#53. What was wrong with me? Why could I not just flip the switch and see all the brightness ahead if only I chose the correct path? Or rather, why could I see the correct path but not choose to tread upon it?
Hanne Arts
#54. When they ask me why I jumped off the roof of my brother's apartment building, I will tell them it was because I wanted the sky to mourn me.
And because I wanted to know what it feels like to hit something so hard it shatters me into bits that they can never sew back together.
Kady Hunt
#55. 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
#56. I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.
Richelle Mead
#57. My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
Shannon Perry
#58. You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.
Princess Diana
#59. No amount of negative self-image fed to us by the media can harm us as much as the rejection suffered from those meant to love us unconditionally, above all else.
Esther M. Soto
#60. Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
Anne Sexton
#61. ...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.
Kathleen Glasgow
#62. Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#63. I seek the truth ... it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
Marcus Aurelius
#64. My hand no longer trembled out of fear, but out of anticipation. I knew I was addicted to the rush it provided, to the release it provided from the emotional mess I had become, but I didn't care. It wasn't drugs. It was just a few cuts on my arm.
S.M. Koz
#65. Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.
Sigmund Freud
#66. As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.
Gautama Buddha
#67. The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self ... from within.
T.F. Hodge
#68. They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.
Marilyn Manson
#69. If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.
Marcus Aurelius
#70. Hatred and disdain do harm to the donor not the intended recipient ...
The Strength in Knowing
by I. Alan Appt
I. Alan Appt
#71. A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint
Amy Efaw
#72. Nothing and no one can harm you unless you choose to allow it.
Rene Gaudette
#73. Sin - plain, old-fashioned sin, the self-same sin which caused Adam's downfall - is what we are all suffering from today, and it will do us far more harm than good to try to dress it up with a fancy, more attractive label.
Billy Graham
#74. The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.
Criss Jami
#76. And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.
Amy Efaw
#77. 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
#78. Boundaries help us to distinguish our property so that we can take care of it. They help us to "guard our heart with all diligence." We need to keep things that will nurture us inside our fences and keep things that will harm us outside.
Henry Cloud
#79. It hurts but you don't care , it is you therapy , with no talking
Sabrina Salas
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peace my worth.
Karen Salmansohn
#84. Be careful what you tell yourself, and do not belittle yourself, even in jest. Negative, deprecating self-talk can do significant harm to your self-image.
Cheryl L. Ilov
#85. Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#86. Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#87. DEBORAH DROVE US SOUTH ON DIXIE HIGHWAY. YES, I did say "us." To my surprise, I had become a valuable member of the Justice League and was informed that I was being honored with the opportunity to put my irreplaceable self in harm's way.
Jeff Lindsay
#88. 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
#89. I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.
Sylvia Plath
#90. Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
Vernon Howard
#91. stars are the scars of the universe
Ricky Maye
#92. Note to self: I take entirely too much pleasure in causing bodily harm to others.
Adrianne Brooks
#93. To me, I see scars of courage. Inflicting them gave him the strength to survive the pain that's plagued him all his life. I'm grateful to every one of them because he's still here, with me.
Nicola Haken
#94. Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.
Cortney S. Warren
#95. Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
Steve Martin
#96. Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this - then steer away from here.
Caitlin Moran
#97. Self-compassion is an inoculate for the mind, protecting it from potential harm. Emotional disease cannot contaminate the minds of those who are wise enough to love and accept themselves.
Miya Yamanouchi
#98. I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.
Karen Carpenter
#99. When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and afraid to share with anyone the memories that haunted me.
Erin Merryn
#100. In all of your living, don't forget to live.
Ricky Maye
