Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me."
Self Harm quotes
Self Harm
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Princess Diana
Philanthropist, Humanitarian
"You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain."
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?"
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"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will."
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"Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand."
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"Some people go shopping - I cut myself."
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"I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend."
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"The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment."
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"For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks - accidentally - and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive."
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"According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm."
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"Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it."
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"It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that..."
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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."
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"Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it."
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