Home / Quotes / Quote by Caroline Knapp

Quote by Caroline Knapp

“When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.”

Quote by Caroline Knapp

Author

Caroline Knapp was an American writer known for her memoirs and non-fiction works. Born on November 8, 1959, she passed away on June 3, 2002. Her writing often explored themes of addiction and recovery, and she was a prominent figure in the literary world. more

You May Also Like

“Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.”

Running Dark Blood Effects Cold Cat Fruit Glasses Injury Scratches Cosmetics Insert Self Injury

Book:Ariel: The Restored Edition

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.”

Arms Injury Nails Scratches Initials Self Injury

Author:Tom Waits

“My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.”

Heart Has Beens I Can My Heart Negative Skins Mark Injury Maps Self Injury

Author:Natasha Bedingfield

“That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own.”

World Way Looks Mean Kids Wonder Creative Cutting Blood Dangerous Expression Arms Skins Deeper Bones Injury Keep Going Blades Razors Creative Expression Self Injury Grazing

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.”

People World Want Home Happens Kids School Hurt Cutting Treats Injury Blades Razors Self Injury

Author:Chester Bennington

“Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.”

Want Feels Kind Hurt Gentle Knives Self Harm

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood.”

Thinking Form Letting Go Understood Self Harm

Author:Marilyn Manson

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

Want Trying Helping Pain Hurt Self Harm Pain Inside

Author:Princess Diana

“When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.”

Way Want Feels Two Ideas Self Sometimes Brain Destruction Calm Horrible Upset Feel Better Self Destruction Self Harm Very Romantic

Author:Christina Ricci

“There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin, that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear.”

Ifs Way Mind Care Felt Cutting Happened Skins Anxious No Fear Crawling Self Harm

Author:Demi Lovato