By Category: Emotional Pain & Mental Illness

“But Molly pushed him aside and went up to the unicorn, scolding her as though she were a strayed milk cow. 'Where have you been?' Before the whiteness and the shining horn, Molly shrank to a shilling beetle, but this time it was the unicorn's old dark eyes that looked down.

'I am here now,' she said at last.

Molly laughed with her lips flat. 'And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where were you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?' With a flap of her hand she summed herself up: barren face, desert eyes, and yellowing heart. 'I wish you had never come, why do you come now?' The tears began to slide down the sides of her nose.”

-The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

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“It's a bargain you make with yourself, okay? An escape hatch, maybe today I'll try drinking see if that makes me feel better. Then drugs. More drugs. Cutting yourself. You're scared, so you make a deal to make yourself feel safer. And if it doesn't stop next week, next month then you're going to do something to make it stop. And the next month comes and the thought of waking up another day and feeling as badly as you did the day before is worse than the unknown. So you decide to jump. Seems simple, clean, elegant.”

-The Bedford Diaries [television show]

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“My skin is like a map
of where my heart has been
And I can't hide the marks
It's not a negative thing.”

-I Bruise Easily, Natasha Bedingfield

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“And in the first moment of her waking up
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it
When the first cup of coffee tastes like washing up
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it
She goes to the mirror to put on her stuff
She knows she's losing it, oh yeah she's losing it
When she doesn't speak to anyone till four o' clock
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it.”

-She's Losing It, Belle & Sebastian

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“Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world -- kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.”

-Chester Bennington

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“The insane are sane and the sane are insane in a world of craziness.”

-Richard Besaw

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“MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators”

-The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

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“Why torture yourself when life will do it for you.”

-Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even [movie]

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“They are almost well. Some of them will be almost well always.”

-Evening in the Sanitarium, Elizabeth Bishop

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“it's sometimes just like sleeping
curling up
inside
my
private tortures
i nestle into pain
hug suffering
caress every ache

i play dead
it stops the hurting.”

-Play Dead, Björk

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“As does the pain of being alone, and the pain of keeping it all inside, and the pain of always feeling just short of adequate. As soon as the bell rings, she grabs her purse, the remainder of her belongings, and rushes to the bathroom. Stall door locked behind her, she hastily removes the pocket-sized fingernail clippers form the inside zipper pocket of her purse. With out hesitation, she viciously begins to slice away the skin on her wrists and arms, which already are decorated with scabs and scars from her last self-injury. To Heather, it's the only way she can gain some amount of control in her life. Tears didn't fill her eyes, no sound of pain was emitted. In fact, the only feeling she felt was control.

Infinite, absolute control.”

-Amanda Blakely

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“I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.”

-The Hanged Man, Francesca Lia Block

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“I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.”

-The Rose and the Beast: Fairyales Retold, Francesca Lia Block

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“That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own.”

-Violet and Claire, Francesca Lia Block

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“This was not a faerie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.”

-Violet and Claire, Francesca Lia Block

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“'My pain is ugly, Angel Juan. I feel like I have so much ugly pain,' says Witch Baby in a dream.

'Everyone does,' Angel Juan says. 'My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.'”

-Witch Baby, Francesca Lia Block

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“If I insist on situations that make you cry
It's not real
It can be fear
It's in your eyes
It can be here
The complications affect your mind.”

-Astro Boy, Blonde Redhead

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“Remember when we found misery
We watched her, watched her spread her wings
And slowly fly around our room
And she asked for your gentle mind.”

-Misery is a Butterfly, Blonde Redhead

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“I want to kiss the sickness of mind
My heart without reason
Sunken to deep disappointment
Spreads over universe
With a knife
I want to bleed out distress like this.”

-Pink Love, Blonde Redhead

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“How will you know I am hurting,
If you cannot see my pain?
To wear it on my body
Tells what words cannot explain.”

-Corie Blount

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“see here there are the bruises
and some were self-inflicted
and some showed up along the way
so I nod my head
I'm ready for the world to see.”

-Chameleon Boy, Blue October

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“A brief bout with a razorblade cut me
I freaked out, thinking people didn't love me
In letting go, I am so proud of what I've done
I watched closely as the you I knew forgot me”

-Razorblade, Blue October

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“Life is a burden to me, nothing gives me any pleasure. I only find sadness in everything around me. It is very difficult because the ways of those with whom I live, and probably always shall live, are as different from mine as moonlight is from sunlight.”

-Napoleon Bonaparte

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“I'm freezing
I'm starving
I'm bleeding to death
Everything's fine.”

-Mother Mother, Tracy Bonham

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

-Young Americans, David Bowie

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