Self-Harm Quotes

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

Remember that no one can hurt you except yourself. If someone does a mean thing to you, that person is hurt. You are not really hurt unless you become embittered, or unless you become angry and perhaps do a mean thing in return.

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.