199 quotes found
“July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff...Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for...”
“A book is a suicide postponed.”
“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?”
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
“Everything...affects everything”
“Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A s...”
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
“I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”
“Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.”
“If wild my breast and sore my pride,I bask in dreams of suicide,If cool my heart and high my headI think 'How lucky are the dead.”
“Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a r...”
“It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.”
“What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.”
“Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.”
“The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.”
“When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot ...”
“We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too. ”
“You were said to have died of suffering. But you died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void.”
“Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard t...”
