"One day I will be thin enough. Just the bones, no disfiguring flesh. Just the pure, clear shape of me. Bones. That is, after all, what we're made up of, and everything else is just storage, deposit, and waste. Strip it away, use it up. No deposit, no return."
"An ordinary girl, an ordinary waist – but ordinary's just not good enough today."
"I, the hunger artist, rarely disappoint my audience."
"Like a plant, surely, the body can be trained to exist on nothing: to take it's nourishment from the air..."
"Thank God I have this ugly fat body for which to focus on and hate and spend all my time trying to fix, change, lessen. Thank God for exercise machines, and diet pills. Thank God for weightloss. Thank God I can try and fix the outside because I just know that the inside is beyond repair."
"We turn skeletons into goddesses, and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need."
"The colors were so breathtaking; i never chose to notice that it was ana who was staining my soul."
"I wanted to hone myself...till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife." -Sylvia Plath
"Nemo Liber Est Qui Corpori Servit - No one is free, who is a slave to his body"
i don't care if it hurts
i want to have control
i want a perfect body
i want a perfect soul
(Creep - Radiohead)
...Emptiness is lonliness, and lonliness is cleanliness, and cleanliness is godliness and god is empty just like me...
(Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins)
"An imperfect body reflects an imperfect person."
=SI=
"I won't tell anyone why you wear sweaters when it's hot. How will you explain the scars to your kids? Will you lie to each new person in your life?" -- Ten Foot Pole "Late At Night"
"How will you know I'm hurting if you cannot see my pain? To wear it on my body tells what words cannot explain." -C. Blount
"The scars will last forever, But nothing compares to the pain that put them there."
"I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside." -Susanna, Girl Interrupted
"I tell people it's like being dead. It feels like being a ghost, maybe. You float through your days feeling insubstantial, cut off from warmth, light and all feeling. Sometimes it feels like you're in a coffin buried alive. You're screaming inside your head, but no one can hear you."
Let me draw you a picture, a picture with a twist. I'll do it with a razor blade; I'll etch it on my wrist. And as I draw this picture, a fountain will appear, and as this fountain starts to flow my troubles disappear.
pain is weakness leaving the body
The sadness will never go away. -van Gogh (Suicide note)
=OTHER=
"Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?" -Orson Welles
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey
"Smiling is only a symptom of happiness, and can be faked. Do not assume that everybody who smiles is happy." - Jessica Albert
"Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence, whether much that is glorious, whether all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought, from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." -Poe
"I talk to God but the sky is empty." -Sylyia Plath
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." -Kierkegaard
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." -George Orwell
"Perhaps my best years are gone. But I wouldn't want them back, not with the fire in me now." -Samuel Beckett
"Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb." -Lewis H. Lapham, 1935-, American Essayist, Editor
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."-Orson Welles
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say." -Elizabeth Gaskell
"What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called." -John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist
"The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer." -Hubert H. Humphrey
