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Quotes Related to SI
I cut myself again and again to remind myself of you.
-"Scream of the Butterfly," Acid Bath
Even Christ himself would cringe
at the sight of your scars.
-"Cringe," Alkaline Trio
got a little red line
that tells you, boy
where the razor's been.
-"Never Seen Blue," Tori Amos
Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving.
-Cory Anderson
I'll draw you a picture,
I'll draw it with a twist,
I'll draw it with a razorblade,
I'll draw it on my wrist.
And if I draw it correctly,
a red fountain will appear...
to wash away my sorrows,
to chase away my fears.
-Anonymous
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
When tears of scarlet form at your ankles, tears of anguish form at my heart.
-Joel Bradshaw
[That is an amazing quote to me]
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.
-"Hurt," Nine Inch Nails (Also covered by Johnny Cash)
Self-mutilation is a very different issue to suicide. It is a controlled pain personal to you, allowing you to live/exist to some degree.
-Richey James Edwards
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 ?
Somebody get me out of here
I'm tearing at myself
Nobody gives a damn about me
Or anybody else.
-"Medication," Garbage
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]Scars are stories, history written on the body.
-Kathryn Harrison
I see your scars
I know where they're from
So sensually carved and bleeding
Until you..re dead and gone.
-"Beyond Redemption," HIM
These bandages cover more than scrapes,
cuts and bruises from regrets and mistakes.
-"Bandages," Hot Hot Heat
I lay quiet
waiting for her voice to say
"Some things you lose
And some things you just give away"
"Strawberry Gashes," Jack Off Jill
[That Whole Song could be a reference, though]
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 try to kill the thing on the inside.
-"Girl, Interrupted," Susanna Kaysen
I am
Little bit of loneliness
A little bit of disregard
A handful of complaints
But I cant help the fact
That everyone can see these scars.
-"Faint," Linkin Park
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
-Karl Marx
... Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing...
-"Brightness Falls," Jay McInerney
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 ?
i'll take a rusty nail
and scratch your initials on my arm.
-"Kentucky Avenue," Tom Waits
Small, simple, safe price
Rise the wake and carry with me all of my regrets
This is not a small cut that scabs and dries and flakes and heals
And I am not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to bleed and fuck and fight
I want the pain of payment
What's left but a section of pygmy size cuts
Much like the slew of a thousand unwanted fucks
Would you be my little cut?
Would you be my thousand fucks?
And make mark leaving space for the guilt to be liquid
To fill, and spill over, and under my thoughts
My sad, sorry, selfish cry out to the cutter
I'm cutting trying to picture your black broken heart
Love is not like anything
Especially a fucking knife.
-"I'm a Fake," The Used
I wrote you a poem on my wrists. I used a razor as a pen and I signed my name in blood. But you wouldn't read it.
-Surviving [tv movie]
today I fell and felt better
just knowing this matters
I just feel stronger and sharper
found a box of sharp objects what a beautiful thing.
-"A Box Full Of Sharp Objects," The Used
It's too hot in the store and I want to roll up my sleeves, but the gashes on my arm are in straight lines, glaringly obvious to anyone who 'went through that phase' already. Clearly I did not fall down any stairs to get these scabbed over little trenches.
-"One Ear to the Ground"
I drew the blade across my wrist to see how it would feel.
I looked into the future, there was nothing to reveal.
-"Round and Round," Strawbs
A decade of cutting away
dead flesh, cauterizing
old scars ripped open over and over
and still it is not enough.
-"Toward the Solstice," Adrienne Rich
It doesn't matter if you have all the people in the world to talk to, you still have to find the strength to say in words, what you would normally say on your skin.
-Nicole ?
Smiling is only a symptom of happiness and can be faked. Do not assume that everybody who smiles is happiness.
-Jessica Albert
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair;
but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.
Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why.
My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days.
I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy.
I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
-American Psycho [movie]
Blow by blow, her mind cut in sheets
Layers deep, now unraveling
-"Carbon", Tori Amos
Give me life,
Give me pain,
Give me myself again.
-"Little Earthquakes," Tori Amos
Missing someone feels like the earth crumbles beneath you -- you are falling with nothing to grab, and it comes when you don't expect it, and it never stops coming.
-Anonymous
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
-Aristotle
When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while. There is a sudden electric what-the-hell glow as you stand there looking back over your shoulder at the bridge you just burnt down.
-"Rage," Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
I have been dying since October. I wake up at night so afraid, so terrified, that I couldn't be that afraid while awake. It has taken its toll. I have come to hate this life in this system of things. I have come to have no hope.
-Mark O. Barton
It's a bargain you make with yourself, okay? An escape hatch, maybe today I'll try drinking see if that makes me feel better. Then drugs. More drugs. Cutting yourself. You're scared, so you make a deal to make yourself feel safer. And if it doesn't stop next week, next month then you're going to do something to make it stop. And the next month comes and the thought of waking up another day and feeling as badly as you did the day before is worse than the unknown. So you decide to jump. Seems simple, clean, elegant.
-The Bedford Diaries
They are almost well. Some of them will be almost well always.
-"Evening in the Sanitarium," Elizabeth Bishop
I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.
-"The Rose and the Beast: Fairyales Retold," Francesca Lia Block
This was not a faerie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
-"Violet and Claire," Francesca Lia Block
Remember when we found misery
We watched her, watched her spread her wings
And slowly fly around our room
And she asked for your gentle mind.
-"Misery is a Butterfly", Blonde Redhead
He had been crying quitely all evening. It did not show, not a vestige of it, on his face. It was all hidden somewhere and it wouldn't stop.
-"The Stories of Ray Bradbury", Ray Bradbury
And prescription pills
Well, I take two a day
To make my brain behave
It never does, but who's to say?
At least my doctor gets paid.
-"Loose Leaves", Bright Eyes
I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.
-"Year of Wonders", Geraldine Brooks
sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think,
I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside
remembering all the times you've felt that way.
-"gamblers all", Charles Bukowski
Who the hell wants to be a healthy, organic whole when you can be a brilliant, injured, human fragment?
-"Sex and Sensibility", Julie Burchill
Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.
-"Dry", Augusten Burroughs
im not [being] nice out of pity im being nice because i know you and i care about you and i cant live knowing that something is wrong with you and im not helping you and life is hard and its alot easier when someone is there hold your hand
-My friend, Lia ♥
Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.
-"Dry", Augusten Burroughs
There lies the beauty: I'm done with thinking. All it ever did was make me cry.
-"The Story of Junk", Linda Yablonsky
Our whole world is nothing but a world of grief and misery, and its inhabitants are nothing but grieving and miserable people. The living beings on this earth are all destined for slaughter. The azure heaven and the round earth are no more than a great slaughter-yard, a great prison.
-K'ang Yu-Wei
This hatred overtook me, and I couldn't help myself. I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.
-"Prozac Nation." Elizabeth Wurtzel
Childhood - When rolling down a hill was fun
and hurting yourself was still a bad thing.
-Anonymous
Suggested by Bebe
Have your nails scratch the deepest
Have you broken skin this time
Made your mark and took me deeper
As you drown me with your eyes
I held my hand over your mouth
As you scream at me to feel
You felt my scars with understanding
But I can't promise anything
- "Bleed Like Me", Trapt
Tears run down like razor blades. Tears stain my face as blood stains my skin.
- Jamie
Razors Bring Me To Life. So Cut Me Open,To Show Me What It's Like.
- Jamie
