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Quote by Sylvia Plath

“The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.”

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American poet, novelist, and playwright. Her works are known for their profound emotion and unique style, and she is considered one of the most important female writers of the 20th century. more

“Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.”

Ifs Persons Turns Water Mistake Cutting Blood Cold Suicide Errors Deeper Warm Substance Rising Friendly Transformed Nevertheless Baths Turn-on Razors Icy Self Harm Cold Water Not Friends

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.”

Solitude Quiet Quiet Life

Author:Eric Clapton

“got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.”

Littles Lines Boys Red Suicide Razors Self Harm Red Lines

Author:Tori Amos

“Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.”

Trying Amount Suicide Occupation Hung Self Harm Small Amounts

Author:Anne Sexton

“i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes 'till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.”

Way Stills Body Eye Sound Imagine Rocks Suicide Throwing Crash Cliffs Self Harm I'm Back Throwing Things

Author:Bjork

“Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?”

Cases Suicide Insanity Razors Self Harm

Author:David Bowie

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

Sometimes Pain Cutting Suicide Adrenaline Self Harm

Author:Eminem

“Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing”

Self Arms Suicide Wounds Loathing Intricate Self Loathing Self Harm Grids Self Inflicted Self Inflicted Wounds

Author:Jay McInerney

“There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.”

Pain Suffering Suicide Antidote Self Harm Physical Pain

Book:Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83

Source: Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83

“A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.”

World This World Drug Suicide Dumb Pills Numb Self Harm

Author:Marilyn Manson

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