“If you get cornered...[hits himself on head with cricket bat]...bash ’em in the head, that seems to work. Ow.”— Edgar Wright, Shaun, Simon Pegg, imdb.com
“It started right after my mother died when I was about eleven. I would repetitively hit something, usually on my hands, and it would get so numb. And then I would know when it was broken and then I would stop. I think what I liked—what I’ve learned through years of therapy, now as a fifty- five-year…”— Rosie O'Donnell, amazon.com
“Alice: I slit my throat last night. Devin: Holy shit!”— Isa Mazzei, Alice/Lola, Madeline Brewer, imdb.com
“Sam: What happened to your hand? Suzy: I got hit in the mirror. Sam: Really? How did that happen? Suzy: I lost my temper at myself.”— Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Sam Shakusky, Jared Gilman, imdb.com
“I would advocate that you show me your smiling face, and how happy you can make your life. I know that isn’t always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it’s hard for people to rise above things.”— Andy Biersack, hardrockdaddy.com
“I slashed my wrists. All I can say is that I fell in love with the wrong person.”— Peter Steele, loudersound.com
“Learning mindfulness and increasing bodily awareness are key components of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which can help you to establish autonomy over your body in a way that is empowering rather than devaluing.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“At the age of 13 to 18, to go away to a girl’s prison and during that time experiencing brutal self-harm, I would stop at nothing to destroy myself. I would beat my head against the wall until I bled. I would rip out my hair and use it to strangle myself. I bit myself. I friction burned myself with…”— Amy Bleuel, isharehope.com
“I can't carry a pen. I'm afraid I'll puncture my scrotum.”— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“nailbiter, n.: I take it out on myself, but only in ways I know I’ll survive.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Taking your own life. Interesting expression - taking it from who? Once it’s over, it’s not you who’ll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com
“Hurting yourself won’t stop the monsters from appearing under your bed. Killing yourself won’t lessen the pain you feel. Don’t waste your gift. Don’t waste the opportunity to live.”— E.J. Cenita, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.”— Rebecca McNutt, amazon.com
“The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to- the person who wasn't listening- was me. I was the one who should have been staring at that arm, and working out wh…”— Caitlin Moran, amazon.com
“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility.”— Caroline Kettlewell, amazon.com
“The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, and make a clean slice. It tells me the words that I have been begging to hear: this will make it ok.”— Amanda Steele, amazon.com