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Here's a whole load of quotes that I have collected from various places. Most of them relate to SI in some way, others are just there because I liked the sound of them. I hope you can enjoy them. I've updated this page with a lot of new quotes- enjoy. <3

  • "[Self Mutilation is] the direct and deliberate destruction alteration of one's
    own body tissue, without conscious suicidal intent".
    (Submitted by Tori)

  • "We are always more complex than our scars show. It is
    something like a road map of our lives."
    (Submitted by Tori)

  • "I cry through the blood; my body cries for me."
    (Submitted by Tori)

  • "My depth perception must be off again, because this hurts more than I thought it would"
    Could you find it in your heart to make this go away & let me rest in pieces."
    Saliva- "Rest in Pieces"
    (Submitted by Tori)

  • "The heads are down and all the people frown in the factory.
    I'm so down I put my head around every noose I see.
    Days are long but the minds are strong in the factory"
    The Vines, "The Factory"
    (Submitted by Tori)

  • "Cutting is the loneliest and most embarrassing experience, but once you talk about it you discover how many people have done the same thing,"
    -Elizabeth Wurtzel (author of prozac nation)

  • "I'm not going to change who I am for other people. Like me for who I am now, or don't like me. And if you can't like me for who I am now, then you can just go to hell."
    -Craig Miller

  • I have wounds that won't heal and scars that won't fade.

  • "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in that suffering"
    -Roberta Flack

  • Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
    -Everett McKinley Dirksen

  • You hate it when I cut;
    I hate it when you lie;
    but cutting is on my mind;
    and our love is but a lie.
    -Megan

  • You think you can cut the pain away. And then everything will be normal. But after the first cut... there will be a second and a third. It will get into the hundreds. Scars, reminders of times you were sad. Its a lethal addiction. Eventually, we all run out of skin. Then what??
    -Megan

  • "Will you love me any less if I hurt you anymore?"
    -Jack off Jill

  • "Her wrist showed
    horribly scarred with cuts fresh and raw.
    nobody understood her pain
    and from that day forth, she cried crimson tears."
    -Ruth

  • "I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to kill the thing on the inside."
    -"Girl, Interrupted"

  • "Inside my skin, there is this space,
    It twists and turns, it bleeds and aches..."
    -Jewel Kllcher, "Abscence of Fear"

  • "So precious you know this hate of mine exploded
    I'm so deranged you know I will never be the same...
    Tying yourself to me stitch up my emptiness
    'Cause you're the death of me so precious, loving the thrill"
    -Orgy, "Stitches"

  • "Each cut closer to the vein, bleed, bleed"
    -Korn, "Here to Stay"

  • With her hair pulled back and her eyes drowned
    The make up running down her face and silver in hand
    She realizes slowly that no matter how much she hopes...
    There is no escape.

  • As hard as you try, you'll never see, all of the scars inside of me.

  • With her hair pulled back and her eyes drowned
    The make up running down her face and silver in hand
    She realizes slowly that no matter how much she hopes...
    There is no escape.

  • A locked door, a rusty razor, a towel stained with red...
    A folded note, a broken mirror,
    a young girl lays there dead their emotions tangle,
    the room begins too s w i r l - she....
    was Mommy’s Perfect angel and daddy’s little girl

  • I can cry on your command
    I can scream, making my lungs bleed
    I can stare at the broken reflection
    Seeing you laughing at me

  • you led me to a nasty habit.
    by the end of our romance my
    wrists were covered in scars

  • So, scream I heard about your message,
    And how it reeked of your indifference,
    It bleeds horizontal straight from your
    wrist.

  • My wrists are killing me like the sound of your voice.
    So cut me baby im all ears.
    Kiss me hard so you can taste my words and maybe then you'll understand.
    Those roses you left on my casket were of the deepest reds.
    Just like the blood that reflected off the razor right after I broke the last of my promises to you

  • let the windshield break your fall
    count how many times you roll on the asphalt

  • Choose your blade and carve your name into my heart; Soothe the wounds and heal my scars.

  • Who Knew Such A Perfect Girl Was So Suicidal?
    The Blood Flows From Her Wrist
    Her Very Last Razorblade Kiss

  • I Wanna Be Your Lover
    Lipstick My Name Across Your Mirror
    Bloodred With Flaked Gunshot Glitter

  • Suicidal Angel
    Cuts Her Skin With Razor Blades
    In Hopes That She'll Forget You
    But Your Image Will Never Fade
    Death Is Around The Corner
    She'll Soon Be Resting Up Above
    Suicidal Angel
    Died Just For Your Love

  • This Worthless Bottle Is Empty Just Like Me
    I Wonder If They Ever See The Things That I See
    Tonight A Razor Asked My Wrist To Kiss It One Last Kiss

  • So wake me when it's over and tell me when the feeling's gone.
    I always knew that you'd be my favorite scar.
    Your burn is slow but it burns me to the bones.
    I'm comatose when I start to walk alone.
    I hope you find what you need.
    But can I have my heart back?
    'cause it's starting to bleed.
    -The Vanished

  • These bandages cover more than scrapes…cuts…and bruises. They cover all my regrets and mistakes.

  • They can see the tear stains, you can show them the scars; but you might as well lie because they'll never understand.

  • Real cutters dont cut for attention or for the pain,
    real cutters cut for the satisfaction of being in control something.

  • If only my life could be more like the movies.
    I want an angel to swoop down to me like he does to
    Jimmy Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life"
    and talk me out of suicide.
    I've always waited for that one
    moment of truth to set me free and
    change my life forever, but he won't come.
    It doesn't happen that way.
    -Lizzie, "Prozac Nation"

  • long sleeved shirts
    bracelets cover wrists
    no one can know
    the truth behind this

  • But sometimes acting happy
    makes you hurt that much more
    She cuts her wrist to watch it bleed
    Hoping someone will save her

  • Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving."
    -Cory Anderson (submitted by Rosie)

  • "People dislike alcoholics, but they still drink at parties. People sit in non-smoking sections in restaurants, but still enjoy the occasional nicotine jolt. People have strong feelings against self-injurers, but they also take all their emotions out on other people."
    -Emily  

  • "Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin, and pray for the courage to press down."
    -Girl, Interrupted [movie version] (submitted by Michele)

  • "You bleed just to know you're alive."
    -Goo Goo Dolls, "Iris"

  • "I have spent nights with matches and knives,
    leaning over ledges only two flights up.
    Cutting my heart, burning my soul, nothing left to hold.
    Nothing left but the blood and the fire.

    You have spent nights thinking of me
    Missing my arms but you needed to leave
    Leaving my cuts, leaving my burns
    Hoping I'd learn"
    -Indigo Girls "Blood and Fire"

  • "How will you know I am hurting,
    If you cannot see my pain?
    To wear it on my body
    Tells what words cannot explain."
    -C. Blount

  • "... Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing..."
    -Jay McInerney, "Brightness Falls," (submitted by Haico)

  • "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

  • "The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."
    -Karl Marx (submitted by Bri)

  • "I hurt myself today
    To see if I still feel
    I focus on the pain
    The only thing that's real
    The needle tears a hole
    The old familiar sting
    Try to kill it all away
    But I remember everything."
    -Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails also remade this song)

  • · "Ah...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."
    -Pearl Jam, "Footsteps" (submitted by Cassie)

  • Do you believe in forever? I don't even believe
    in tomorrow. The only things that last forever are
    memories and sorrow..

  • "Bleeding is breathing, bleeding is believing"
    -Natalie Imbruglia, "Smoke"

  • "Everyday I fight a war against the mirror
    I can't take the person staring back at me
    I'm a hazard to myself
    So irritating
    Don't wanna be my friend no more
    I wanna be somebody else
    Don't let me get me."
    -Pink, "Don't let me get me"

  • "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, "Stan"

  • "And the lovesick rejection that accompany the company I keep
    All the razor perception that cuts just a little too deep
    Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep..."
    -Counting Crows, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"

  • "The pain is safe, comfortable, common, how long can this go on....
    forever....because I can't make it stop."

  • "Living is waiting to die."

  • "So many things have changed.
    And i'm stuck in forever.
    And forever doesn't exist.
    So maybe I don't either.
    Maybe one day I will wake up and realize
    All of this was just a really bad dream."

  • "If it makes you happy, then Im fine.
    If it makes you sleep at night, I am not suicidal.
    If it helps you stay ignorant, the scars
    that lace my body are not remnants or proof
    of how much self-hatred boils inside of me.
    If it keeps you from abandoning me,
    then I am not crazy.."

  • "I cut myself as you can see, I wish I wasn't ME."

  • "Run your fingers through my soul, for once, just once feel exactly what i feel, believe what i believe, perceive as i perceive, look, experience, examine and for once, just once, understand."
    -Sarah Ohotto

  • I drew the blade across my wrist to see how it would feel.
    I looked into the future, there was nothing to reveal."
    -Strawbs, "Round and Round"

  • "I wanted to be loved by some one who did not love me. That miser. Always hitting me always throwing me into walls and through windows always cutting me with knives and burning me with the sulfur tips of matches. She didn't know how to love me, she couldn't take care of me. I was her big disappointment, her sore tooth, her failed attempt, her temptation to destroy, to draw blood, to make amends with a line of salty puddles blaring red, too much blood to carry to contain. No one ever taught her how to love me. I wanted to be loved by a monster. That monster was myself."

  • "Somebody get me out of here, I'm tearing at myself.
    Nobody gives a damn about me, or anybody else..."

  • "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."
    -Papa Roach, "Last Resort" (submitted by Phantom of Sadness)

  • "The Cold Concrete Cuts Against Her Back
    And Her Spirit Spills With Blood Onto The Pavement."

  • "A Broken Mirror, A Bleeding Fist
    A Silver Blade Against A Wrist
    TearsFallingDownToLipsUnkissed
    Ignore Her And She Won't Exist
    She's Not The Kind You'll Come To Miss."

  • "So deep that it didn't even bleed."

  • "The worst part about a suicide attempt is that you have failed yet again. you didnt succeed. which means you can't even die right."

  • "The blade rest between my lips, I just pray to GOD it wont fall, for if it does, yet another scar will be added tonight..."

  • "This is not love; this is my blood, adrenaline and alcohol."

  • "Yes, I think it's safe to say
    I feel good about the sin
    that I inflict on my own skin.
    I pay money to cut and burn pictures
    like lessons that I need to learn.
    I see faces on the ceiling.
    I see them move and i hear them singing.
    I lay down laughing here by myself
    and think about the time that I spent in hell."
    -Everclear, "When it all goes wrong again"

  • "There's no joy without the pain. It's the pain that makes us strong"
    -Save Ferris, "Mistaken"

  • "I've never been the kind
    To ever let my feelings show
    And I thought that being strong
    Meant never losing your self-control
    But I'm just drunk enough
    To let go of my pain
    To hell with my pride
    Let it fall like rain from my eyes
    Tonight I wanna cry."

  • "& pain doesn't hurt when it's all you've ever felt."

  • "When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial because I'm concentrating on the pain. I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically."
    -Richey Edwards, "Manic Street Preachers"

  • "I will not die without scars to prove I once lived."

  • "This is where I say I'VE HAD ENOUGH. No one should ever feel the way I feel now. a walking open wound, a trophy display of bruises... & I don't believe that i'm getting any better."

  • "Next time you think no one in this world cares about you; look at my wrist and you'll remember that I do."

  • "Razor blade razor blade, cold and bright,
    take away my pain tonight.
    A tiny prick, a litle cut,
    the light is low, the door is shut.
    The blade slides in, the blood runs out,
    along with it: cold, fear and doubt.
    Now cover the cut, put the blade away,
    to wait for use another day."

  • "When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls?"

  • "I recognize that I am made up of several persons
    and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand
    will inevitably give place to another.
    But which is the real one?
    All of them or none?"

  • "You need a distraction, a beautiful release, memories seep from your veins."
    -Sarah McLachlan

  • "You look at me, but you don't see,
    understand I'm a sinner
    don't corner me, don't lecture me
    raise your hands; you're a sinner."
    -Drowning Pool, "Sinner"

  • "I'm six feet from the edge & I'm thinking..
    maybe 6 feet ain't so far down.."
    -Creed, "One last breath"

  • "Fake smiles and silent screams. 
    I only live inside my dreams,
    put on a face to hide my pain
    watch my blood run down the drain
    tell myself everything will be alright
    & wipe away the tears at night
    unnoticed in the back of a crowd
    I'll hide in my invisible shrowd
    put on a show and smile wide
    if it makes you happy im fine im ok
    I'll just hide my pain away."

  • "Scars are stories, history written on the body."
    -Kathryn Harrison

  • "We shouldn't be so shocked by the cutting; we should be shocked by what causes it,"
    -Marilee Strong (author of a 'bright red scream')

  • "Childhood - when rolling down a hill was fun and hurting yourself was still a bad thing."

  • "Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again."

  • "Scar tissue that I wish you saw."
    -Red Hot Chile Peppers

  • "I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts...because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting."
    -Stranger in a Strange Land

  • "Cut myself on angel hair & baby's breath."
    -Nirvana, "Heart shaped box"

  • "The way I hurt myself again just to get back at you."
    -Linkin Park, "Points of authority" 

  • "Everything you say to me takes me one step closer to the edge"
    -Linkin Park, "One step closer"

  • "Scar, always there, to medicate your fear."
    -Abandoned Pools, "The Remedy"

  • "I remember feeling low... I remember losing hope..."
    -Our Lady Peace, "Innocent"

  • "My heart's at a low
    I'm so much to manage
    I think you should know that
    I've been damaged..."
    -TLC, "Damaged"

 
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