By Category: Self-Injury Quotes

“... Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing...”

-Brightness Falls, Jay McInerney

Recommended by Haico.

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“Skin is beautiful, don't ruin it with scars just because your life isn't as beautiful. For once life becomes beautiful to you again, your skin wont be so beautiful anymore.”

-Meg

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“'This' pain I can see it but I can't feel it
It haunts me
When I cut myself I can see where the pain
is coming from and watch it heal
And I can easily care for it
'This' pain doesn't have a specific place
It moves around and creeps into strange places.”

-Melanie - as seen in Marilee Strong's 'A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain'

Recommended by Lucky.

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“The marks inside your arms, spell me
Spell only me.”

-Prince Charming, Metallica

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“And despite what I might say
I measure pleasure by the pain
Measure pleasure by the twisting
Of the metal in the vein.”

-Resurrection, Moist

Recommended by Shay.

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“It doesn't matter if you have all the people in the world to talk to, you still have to find the strength to say in words, what you would normally say on your skin.”

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“Razors and knives, horrible things,
Explanations, slip my mind,
Press and drag, for comforting stings,
Soon, addiction's what you find.
No longer can you wait a day,
An hour's far too long,
Despite what you hear them say,
You still don't think it's wrong.
You like the sting, it makes you smile,
While the blood dripping down makes you snicker,
Finally, something worth your while,
As the lines grow thicker and thicker..”

-Nicole

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“Blood transforms the warm bath water
and, in it, I see weakly
that this was a mistake.
The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless
the blood rushes out happily in the warm
water as if kin to it, the same
tender substance.

Rising
a new person
transformed with an icy
sense of error
I go to the sink and turn on cold water
which is not friendly to blood.
The cut is deeper than imagined.”

-Passing An Afternoon, Joyce Carol Oates

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“Cut my life into pieces
I've reached my last resort, suffocation, no breathing
Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
Would it be wrong, would it be right
If I took my life tonight, chances are that I might
Mutilation out of sight and I'm contemplating suicide.”

-Last Resort, Papa Roach

Recommended by Phantom of Sadness.

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“Aah...don't even think about gettin' inside
Voices in me head...ooh, voices
I got scratches, all over my arms
One for each day, since I fell apart.”

-Footsteps, Pearl Jam

Recommended by Cassie.

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“Carve your name into my arm.
Instead of stressed, I lie here charmed.”

-Every Me Every You, Placebo

Recommended by Shay.

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“Cold glass, how you insert yourself

Between myself and myself.
I scratch like a cat.

The blood that runs is dark fruit---
An effect, a cosmetic.

You smile.
No, it is not fatal.”

-The Other, Sylvia Plath

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“A decade of cutting away
dead flesh, cauterizing
old scars ripped open over and over
and still it is not enough.”

-Toward The Solstice, Adrienne Rich

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“And the blood, it pours like rain
Dripping on everyone's lives so it won't be the same
Bruises on her arms and heartstrings are just too much to bear
And the cuts run deep that she doesn't choose to wear
Oh, the black eyed tears, the pour like rain
And it's just too much to try and cover up her pain

She quietly drinks her pain away a little differently
With pink lemonade, but so much like Davey
She cries herself to sleep at night
She hopes that just one thing will go right.”

-Briana, Ashley Salvador

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“Bees in the caramel and I'm not afraid
Surgeons make incisions
What a mess they've made
Tearing at my skin leaving knives in my brain
Stabbing at the voices making me insane
Girls vomit candy and lies that they're fed.
Boys whisper lullabies and wet their beds
Eat TV violence on the toast that they spread
Talking with their mouths full here is what they've said.”

-Band Aid Covers The Bullet Hole, Scarling

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“E. Edward Grey: Why do you cut yourself, Lee?
Lee: I don't know.
E. Edward Grey: Is it that sometimes the pain inside has to come to the surface, and when you see evidence of the pain inside you finally know you're really here? Then, when you watch the wound heal, it's comforting... isn't it?
Lee: I... That's a way to put it.”

-Secretary [movie]

Recommended by Dana.

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“Each cut, each scar, each burn; a different wound or time. I told him what the first one was. I told him where the second one came from--I remembered them all. And for the first time in my life I felt beautiful. Finally part of the earth. I touched the soil, and he loved me back.”

-Secretary [movie]

Recommended by Kristin.

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“My death from the wrists,
two name tags,
blood worn like a corsage
to bloom
one on the left and one on the right.”

-Menstruation At 40, Anne Sexton

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“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.”

-Breathe Me, Sia

Recommended by Shay.

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“Liberate the people that you hate
Then cut yourself again.”

-Point Of View, Silverchair

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“Shallow skin, I can paint with pain
I mark the trails on my arms with your disdain
Everyday it's the same - I LOVE, YOU HATE
But I guess I don't care any more...
Fix my problems with the blade
While my eyes turn from blue to gray
God, the worst thing happened to me today
But I guess I don't care anymore...”

-Everything Ends, Slipknot

Recommended by Amanda.

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“Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets.”

-Today, Smashing Pumpkins

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“It wasn't a suicide attempt, it was an escape from everything awful. When we cut, we're in control - we make our own pain, ans we can stop it whenever we want. Physical pain relieves mental anguish. For a brief moment, the pain of the cutting is the only thing in the cutter's mind, and when that stops and the other comes back, it's weaker. Drugs do that that too, and sex, but not like cutting. Nothing is like cutting.”

-Crosses, Shelley Stoehr

Recommended by Melissa.

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“I drew the blade across my wrist to see how it would feel.
I looked into the future, there was nothing to reveal.”

-Round And Round, Strawbs

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“It's too hot in the store and I want to roll up my sleeves, but the gashes on my arm are in straight lines, glaringly obvious to anyone who 'went through that phase' already. Clearly I did not fall down any stairs to get these scabbed over little trenches.”

-One Ear to the Ground, Rosie Streetpixie

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