Colleen McCullough Quotes

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

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

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

I never abused anybody but myself.