Self Inflicted Pain Quotes

“Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“Night after night I inflict abuse on myself, even drawing blood. It's strangely calming. I know the pain will stop whenever I want. I was the one who decided when it should start; I will be the one to decide when it stops. However much it hurts, I draw some comfort from the idea that I'm in control.”
― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World

“I no longer have any fear of pain because I'm the one inflicting it and can decide when it stops.”
― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World

“In war, the damage you inflict on the enemy might be immediately apparent. The damage you inflict on yourself in doing so will only become apparent later.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.”
― Valerie Martin, A Recent Martyr

“We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Some people think life is all about suffering, and suffering means living life. So many people live their lives accepting suffering as a way of life and they end up living their lives in perpetual self-inflicted pain without seeing a need to awake to take steps to their latent joy! If you are not feeling happy, wake up! There is a reason to be happy and there is a reason for action. There is something solemn, noble and distinctive that can make you happy! Awake! It is never the wish of God that His creation lives in indentured servitude! Pray!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life: the reasons behind action

“I turn the water all the way hot, turn my back to the water, and I take it. I close my eyes and I'm on the hundredth floor with the jet-fuel fire at my back and the drop below. I take it and take it until I can't take it, until the heat takes over everything, and I jump, plummeting to the street
I'm out of the shower.
I turn my back to the mirror and look at the too-red skin behind my shoulder blades. The wind blows north and the smoke is here. Then the wind shifts and you can't smell a thing. Then the wind shifts again. Now you smell it, now you don't.”
― Adam Berlin, The Number of Missing

“God smiles to calm me and it works. He says, 'They don't realize what they're losing when they bring suffering upon themselves in the name of God. Great art must always have balance. I did not create humanity to suffer. However, suffering is unavoidable. It's a component of life. To bring additional suffering upon oneself is a waste of human potential.”
― Penelope Przekop, Dust