By Category: Emotional Pain & Mental Illness
“I cut myself again and again to remind myself of you.”
-Scream of the Butterfly, Acid Bath
Recommended by Red Dawn.
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“Hung in your room, swaying, hoping only that you'll see.
All by myself, I'm alone in such poor company.
The deeper I think, the deeper I seem to sink,
I can't stop the insects that are feeding,
pull the needles from beneath my skin.
I broke myself, shattered, tied a bow around every piece.
You'll love the eyes.
Have they always shown so vacantly?
The more I show the less you'll want to know.
I can't stop the insects that are feeding,
pull the needles from beneath my skin.
Now I'm on display.
I am becoming.
Hurt myself today.
It's all for you.
Do you like, do you like, what I'm becoming?
Cut myself today.
It's all for you.
I part the night, flashing, approaching as I watch you flee.
Pushed through your panes.
Seems I've landed quite uncomfortably.
But as I pass through souls of broken glass
I can't stop the insects that are feeding.
Pull the needles from beneath my skin.
Please don't ask me just what I think, trust me,
you don't want to know.
Please don't ask me to open up, trust me, trust me,
'cause I can't.”
-The Last Kiss, AFI
Recommended by jes.
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“Smiling is only a symptom of happiness and can be faked. Do not assume that everybody who smiles is happiness.”
-Jessica Albert
Recommended by Rosie.
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“Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
(Through me is the way into the woeful city; through me is the way into eternal woe; through me is the way among the lost people. Justice moved my lofty maker: the divine Power, the supreme Wisdom and the primal Love made me. Before me were no things created, unless eternal, and I eternal last. Leave every hope, ye who enter!)”
-Inferno, Dante Alighieri
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“There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.”
-Inferno, Dante Alighieri
Recommended by Holly.
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“Got the scars to remind me
Watched the clocks go around
I've walked myself through some days
That have put me where I am
In another time
In another place
All things might have been in place
But for now I'm finding myself -- up here standing on a rooftop -- screaming
'Hey World! Are you listening,
Listening to me?
I'm here & I'm hurting
To begin again!'
It's another time, it's another place
We are making more old days
But for now I'm finding myself -- out here standing on my doorstep -- screaming
'Hey World! Are you listening,
Listening to me?
I'm here & I'm hurting
To begin again!'
'Hey World! I'm ready to listen -ready to listen
And learn something new
I'm here & I'm willing
To get myself through'”
-Rooftops, Alkaline Trio
Recommended by Abby.
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“And I've been through many strange confusions
Splitting myself into too many faces
Now the mirror is broken, I can see the worms behind.”
-Apollo, Alphaville
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“Janie is a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her all that's going to pass. But I don't want to lie to her.”
-American Beauty [movie]
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“I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair;
but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.
Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why.
My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days.
I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy.
I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.”
-American Psycho [movie]
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“I never talk about this and it helps the healing process to do so. Because people out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. emotionally, I mutilated myself by feeling I'm not worthy of being loved and fucked, and being able to love and fuck at the same time. I was straining toward the reconciliation the last time we talked but the last frontier was crossed when I got the illness. At that point I had to deal with so much trauma in that part of my body and psyche. I do believe repression of that nature can cause the disease.”
-Tori Amos
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“Blow by blow, her mind cut in sheets
Layers deep, now unraveling.”
-Carbon, Tori Amos
Recommended by Shay.
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“Carbon - made only wants to be unmade.”
-Carbon, Tori Amos
Recommended by Shay.
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“i've been looking for a savior
in these dirty streets
looking for a savior
beneath these dirty sheets.”
-Crucify, Tori Amos
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“i hurt myself today
to see if i could feel
i hurt myself you said
to try to make him feel
so i hurt myself again
to see if he'd see me
i hurt myself again
i know he never could see me.”
-Hurt (introduction to Caught a Lite Sneeze), Tori Amos
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“you're only popular with anorexia
so i turn myself inside out
in hope someone will see.”
-Jackie's Strength, Tori Amos
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“Give me life,
Give me pain,
Give me myself again.”
-Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos
Recommended by Jaine.
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“slaps you once in a while
and you live and love in pain.”
-Only Women Bleed, Tori Amos
Recommended by Tiffany.
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“But what if I'm a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey but I don't care
Cause sometimes I said sometimes I hear my voice and it's been
HERE silent all these years.”
-Silent All These Years, Tori Amos
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“My heart is like the ocean, it gets in the way
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name.”
-Take to the Sky, Tori Amos
Recommended by Shay.
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“mirror mirror where's the crystal palace
but i only can see myself
SKATING around the truth who i am
but i know dad the ice is getting thin.”
-Winter, Tori Amos
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“Before we left, I found one of the doctors who had helped me and quietly asked him to slit my throat.”
-Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson
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“I leaned closer to the glass. The guy in the mirror looked like somebody had wrapped his heart in barbed wire and pulled.”
-Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson
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“Why bother trying? What's the point? So I could go to some suck-ass college, get a diploma, march out into a job I hated, marry a pretty girl who would want to divorce me, but then she wouldn't because we'd have kids, so instead she'd become the angry woman on the other end of the kitchen table, and the kids would grow up watching this, until one day I'd look at my son and he'd look just like the face in the bathroom mirror?
If that was life, then it was twisted.”
-Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson
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“Pain is always preferable to numbness.”
-Triage, Scott Anderson
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“...I sense a stranger filling this silent room with anguish... a silence that rattles against the windows leaving me so cold and numb... and somehow... this feeling I do not understand is my best friend and enemy all wrapped up in one...”
-Anonymous
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