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| "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 "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] "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 "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." -"Footsteps," Pearl Jam "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 "Inside my skin, there is this space, It twists and turns, it bleeds and aches..." -Jewel- "Good parenting does not produce children who self-injure" -Cutting:Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron --NOTE: I know that this it not always true, but in some cases, it most certainly is, mine included, so I will not be taking this quote down. Sorry. "I'm living but I'm feeling numb. Can see it in my stare. I wear a mask so falsely numb and I don't know who I am." -"This mortal coil," Tarantula "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." -"When it all goes wrong again" - Everclear "There's no joy without the pain. It's the pain that makes us strong" -"Mistaken" by Save Ferris "Scared woman in private hell" -"Why I dont beleive in god" by Everclear "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" "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) "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') "Sometimes I cut myself to see how much it bleeds... it's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me" -"Stan," Eminem "The way I hurt myself again just to get back at you." -"Points of Authority," Linkin Park ÒEverything you say to me Takes me one step closer to the edgeÓ -"One Step Closer," Linkin Park ÒAnd I... Just wish that I didn't feel. Like there was something I missed.Ó -"My December," Linkin Park "it's just one of those days when ya don't wanna wake up everything is fucked everybody sucks" -"Break Stuff," Limp Bizkit "Scar, always there, to medicate your fear" -"The Remedy," Abandoned Pools ------Thanks to Bri for this one! "Each cut closer to the vein, bleed, bleed" -"Here to Stay," Korn ------Thanks to Bri for this one! "I remember feeling low I remember losing hope..." -"Innocent", Our Lady Peace "She wishes God would give her some answers And make her feel beautiful." -"Innocent," Our Lady Peace "Cut myself on angel hair and babyÕs breath." -"Heart Shaped Box," Nirvana "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" -"Stitches," Orgy "now you've made a mess of yourself you've made a mess of everything you're a mess a fucking mess" -"Dizzy," Orgy "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" -"Sinner," Drowning Pool "Will I ever get to where I«m going? If I do, will I know when I am there? If the wind blew me in the right direction would I even care?" -"Nowhere Fast," Incubus "Will I ever get to where I«m going? If I do, will I know when I am there? If the wind blew me in the right direction would I even care?" -"My Goodbyes," Saliva Òif i'd only see the light maybe then i'd be alrightÉÓ -3rd Strike ÒNo LightÓ ÒI feel addiction take control I know no other way reality is just fantasy again if i could penetrate your soul I'd help you find a way to make fantasy reality again.Ó -3rd Strike, ÒRedemptionÓ Òturn another page i guess that life goes on take it day by day it sometimes feels so wrongÉÓ -3rd Strike, ÒLisaÓ "Her wrist showed horribly scarred with cuts fresh and raw. nobody understood her pain and from that day forth, she cried crimson tears." --thanks to Ruth "Has anything you've done made your life better?" -American History X. --thanks to Alyssa "Most of us don't look at things, we look at aspects of things." -Unknown --thanks to Alyssa "Compliments last a second. Insults last a lifetime." -unknown --thanks to Alyssa "Will you love me any less if I hurt you anymore?" -Jack off Jill --thanks to Alyssa "Without a struggle, there can be no progess." -Frederick Douglas --thanks to Alyssa "The eyes of others our prisons;there thoughts are cages." -"An Unwritten Novel", Virgina Woolf --thanks to Alyssa "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", Susanna Kaysen --thanks to Alyssa "My heart's at a low I'm so much to manage I think you should know that I've been damaged..." -"Damaged" by TLC Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it. -Martin Luther King Jr. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." -C.C. Scott "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 "Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things." -David & Leigh Eddings, Polgara the Sorceress "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." -Marie Curie Polish "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." -Dale Carnegie "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." -James Barrie "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." -Anon. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -Mark Twain "This above all; to thine own self be true." -William Shakespeare "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in that suffering" -Roberta Flack --thanks to Sarah! Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -Ingrid Bergman 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 The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. -Robert Louis Stevenson |
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