#Self Harm Quotes

“Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.”

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

“Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.”

“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”

“Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.”

“To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.”

“You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

“Everybody knew about the bulimia in the family. And they all blamed the failure of the marriage on the bulimia and it's taken them time to think differently. I said I was rejected, I didn't think I was good enough for this family, so I took it out on myself. I could have gone to alcohol. I could have been anorexic. I chose to hurt myself instead of hurting all of you.”

“You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.”

“Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.”

“When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

“The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.”

“Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.”

“And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!”

“Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.”

“Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.”

“And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?”

“The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.”

“Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.”

“To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.”

“Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.”

“Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.”

“If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

“No man is hurt but by himself.”

“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.”

“No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.”