Selfmutilation Quotes & Sayings

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone's drunk and ugly and they're going to pass out in a few minutes. — Leon Wieseltier

From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die. — George Sheehan

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. — Thomas J. Watson

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long. — Graham Greene

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance. — William Shakespeare

A man may take his own life for many reasons, and it is impossible to make a general statement; but whenever suicide is a gesture - done, that is, to impress or influence or embarrass others - it is always, so it seems to me, a sign of immaturity and muddled thinking. However much we may admire the fortitude of this Vietnamese monk, the wisdom of his action remains very much in doubt. I do not know the details of the provocation offered by the Catholic Head of State, but the monk appears to have killed himself 'fighting for the cause of Buddhism'. Certainly this action is infinitely more honourable than the setting fire to churches and the crowning of statues that seem to be the favoured methods of giving battle in this country; but it does not follow that it is any the less misguided. — Nanavira Thera

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup. — Ron Fournier

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. — Stephane Mallarme

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed. — Jessica Lynch

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

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