Self Harm Quotes: top 72 famous quotes about Self Harm

Self Harm Quotes & Sayings

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If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care. — Sharon Salzberg

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm. — Roy Baumeister

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

Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do. — Bryant McGill

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it. — Caitlin Moran

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you? — Jeff Lindsay

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

I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health. — Ja Rule

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

Beyond a certain point, hope is more than self-indulgence. It's self-harm. — Simon R. Green

Love can be a form of self-harm.
Craving affection can devastate — Mohamed Ghazi

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. — Karl Marx

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

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A lot is being done to cure physical self-harm, and yet it's a by-product of mental self-harm! — Maddy Malhotra

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can. — Jeff Cooper

It hurts but you don't care , it is you therapy , with no talking — Sabrina Salas

...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary. — Kathleen Glasgow

stars are the scars of the universe — Ricky Maye

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

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help. — Princess Diana

When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love. — John Kuypers

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins. — J.C. Ryle

I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection. — Janny Wurts

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

In all of your living, don't forget to live. — Ricky Maye

Please quiet your strange self lest harm come to you. — William Giraldi

The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment. — Sylvia Plath

Note to self: I take entirely too much pleasure in causing bodily harm to others. — Adrianne Brooks

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression? — David Bowie

Nothing and no one can harm you unless you choose to allow it. — Rene Gaudette

And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier. — Amy Efaw

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. — Leila Sales

Hatred and disdain do harm to the donor not the intended recipient ...
The Strength in Knowing
by I. Alan Appt — I. Alan Appt

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

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

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing — Jay McInerney

People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa — Kathleen Glasgow

Some people go shopping - I cut myself. — Angelina Jolie

The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth. — Criss Jami

I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering. — Albert Borris

It's important to keep in mind that most people have no idea how to respond effectively to someone who self-harms. — Kim L. Gratz

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it. — Anne Sexton

I am so angry all the time, and so sad, and it screams inside me and never stops. Cutting is the only thing that eases me. — Zoe Marriott

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

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

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. — Carl Zimmer

I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body. — Karen Carpenter

I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin. — Madeleine Kuderick

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

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

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud

I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm. — Benedict Smith

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

Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me. — S.A. Tawks

I seek the truth ... it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius

Got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been. — Tori Amos

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon? — Shantideva

Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?
(Bad choice.) — Madeleine Kuderick

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

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

My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within. — Shannon Perry

What possesses them, these young girls with a talent for self-immolation? — Margaret Atwood

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today. — Marilyn Manson

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

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream? — Ilsa J. Bick

Loving the wrong person is self-harm — R H Sin