Cutting Quotes
"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."
-Karl Marx
"Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving."
-Cory Anderson
"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
"See here, there are bruises.. some were self-inflicted and some showed up along the way, so I nod my head. I'm ready for the world to see."
-"Chameleon Boy," Blue October
"That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own."
-"Violet and Claire," Francesca Lia Block
"'Cutting myself was something beyond despair, something very extreme. It's about trying to get to something. The physical act is a metaphor of trying to access something that is frozen. Something between who you were and since the depression who you've moved to and there's this thick layer of ice and you can't get to yourself. You're really excavating to try and find yourself again. It's a positive act even though people around you find it horrible, self-destructive, terrifying and think that you have literally gone crazy.'"
-"A Head Full of Blue," Nick Johnstone
The easiest thing to do is to judge one another, but if one cannot relate, then one can not understand. Even sympathy could not be found.
-Karl Marx
"Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving."
-Cory Anderson
"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
"See here, there are bruises.. some were self-inflicted and some showed up along the way, so I nod my head. I'm ready for the world to see."
-"Chameleon Boy," Blue October
"That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own."
-"Violet and Claire," Francesca Lia Block
"'Cutting myself was something beyond despair, something very extreme. It's about trying to get to something. The physical act is a metaphor of trying to access something that is frozen. Something between who you were and since the depression who you've moved to and there's this thick layer of ice and you can't get to yourself. You're really excavating to try and find yourself again. It's a positive act even though people around you find it horrible, self-destructive, terrifying and think that you have literally gone crazy.'"
-"A Head Full of Blue," Nick Johnstone
The easiest thing to do is to judge one another, but if one cannot relate, then one can not understand. Even sympathy could not be found.
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