I wrote you a poem on my wrists. I used a razor as a pen and I signed my name in blood. But you wouldn’t read it. –written by Molly Ringwald’s character in Surviving

 

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.
–Tracy Thompson, The Beast: A Reckoning with Depression

 

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. –Leonard Cohen

We couldn’t imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
–Jeffery Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
 
I wasn’t trying to die; I just wanted to cut through the fog

When everything feels like a movie, you bleed just to know you’re alive.
–Goo Goo Dolls, “Iris”
 
I find cutting myself attractive…I find it sexual.
–Richey Edwards

Scars are souvenirs you never lose…
–Goo Goo Dolls, “Name”

Damaged people are dangerous, because they know they are survivors.
–from the film Damage

I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself

It's a Sharp World Out There... Everyone Gets Cut... Some Just Choose To