Selfharm Quotes & Sayings

What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst. — Lionel Blue

The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself. — Clementine Von Radics

When I drove home, I burned myself just to feel something. I'm just so lost right now, and I feel like I'm being hit with wave after wave of sadness. It feels like a struggle to even think about tomorrow. — Jason E. Hodges

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper. — Monica Crowley

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America — Ilya Ilf

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. — John McWhorter

I never felt part of the Christian industry. — Larry Norman

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream? — Ilsa J. Bick

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside. — Cheryl Rainfield

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony. — Richard Leakey

You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does. — Cheryl Rainfield

I care about you as people, and I believe you are capable of great things. Each of you will contribute something to this world. You are important. You would be missed. — Cindy L. Rodriguez

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others. — Krista Tippett

He was never able to explain what the cutting did for him in a way he'd understand: how it was a form of punishment and also of cleansing, how if allowed him to drain everything toxic and spoiled from himself, how it kept him from being irrationally angry at others, at everyone, how it kept him from shouting, from violence, how it made him feel like his body, his life, was truly his and no one else's. — Hanya Yanagihara

GRUNT - "Term of affection used to denote that filthy, sweaty, dirt-encrusted, footsore, camouflage-painted, tired, sleepy beautiful little son of a bitch who has kept the wolf away from the door for over two hundred years. — H.G. Duncan

I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away. — Cheryl Rainfield

Words, rolling on. Sometimes the Harbinger of Death hears these words, words of house prices and commutes and the price of pasta and the new washing machine and the difficulty of finding a place to dry your wet clothes, and they make him indescribably sad.

Tonight, for some reason, as he listens to a story of a life still being built, and speaks of the ending of all things, he is not afraid, and this world, which seemed to be only ashes, begins again to give him an extraordinary joy. — Claire North

Still in one piece?" Vincent teased, pulling me close & planting a soft kiss on my lips. "After dirty-dancing with Jules, I'm not sure. — Amy Plum

Skipping the intermediary stages, it suffices to say that this synthesis, after being incarnated in the Church
and in Reason, culminates in the absolute State, founded by the soldier workers, where the spirit of the world will be finally reflected in the mutual recognition of each by all and in the universal reconciliation of everything that has ever existed under the sun. At this moment, "when the eyes of the spirit coincide with the eyes of the body," each individual consciousness will be nothing more than a mirror reflecting another mirror, itself reflected to infinity in infinitely recurring images. The City of God will coincide with the city of humanity; and universal history, sitting in judgment on the world, will pass its sentence by which good and evil will be justified. The State will play the part of Destiny and will proclaim its approval of every aspect of reality on
"the sacred day of the Presence. — Albert Camus

Asking your friend to be a bridesmaid is one of the modern paradoxes: no one actually wants to do it, but everyone would be offended if you didn't ask. — Mindy Kaling

Something about the fall, the freshness of the pain, had been restorative. It was honest pain, clear pain, a pain without shame or filth, and it was a different sensation than he had felt in years ... before he was conscious of what he was doing, he was tossing himself against the brick wall, and as he did so, he imagined he was knocking out of himself every piece of dirt, every trace of liquid, every memory of the past few years. He was resetting himself; he was returning himself to something pure; he was punishing himself for what he had done. After that, he felt better, energized. — Hanya Yanagihara

It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated. — Norm MacDonald

The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that we will ever know. Unlike the continuum of perpetual time and infinite space, everything that we know will experience disruption, dissolution, disintegration, dismemberment, and death. The inevitability of our ending represents the tragic comedy of life. Much of our needless suffering emanates from resisting our impermanence rather than embracing our fate. Only through acceptance of the events and situations that occur in a person's life including suffering, and by releasing our attachments, will a person ever experience enlightenment. — Kilroy J. Oldster