Self Harm Quotes

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…

With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery].- Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID)

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

I can't stop.

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?

Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.

Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful.

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.

people say things meant to rip you in half but you hold the power to notturn their words into a knifeand cut yourself

I lay on my floor crying again… shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth was dry as I sucked on air that seemed to keep getting thicker and harder to breathe. I tried to leave again, but ended up leaning my forehead against the door, feeling defeated and wishing the Grim Reaper would come for me in all his silky, black glory.

In some ways, com­ing to terms with my­self and work­ing to­ward re­cov­ery has been like say­ing “I love you” to some­one but keep­ing a loaded gun hid­den in your back pocket, just in case that per­son pisses you off enough.

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.

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.

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.