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“It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one il...”
“Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to cha...”
“You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesnt know? You didnt deny life but affirmed your taste for the unknown, betting t...”
“They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker co...”
“[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit q...”
“On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.”
“I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be changed. I didn't want this life. They're were only so many times I could ...”
“a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up ones watch, since t...”
“The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illnessto the individual himself and to othersand fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides ”
“But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have so simply declared myself,have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,have tak...”
“Your suicide makes the lives of those who outlive you more intense. Should they be threatened by boredom, or tshould the absurdity of their lives leap out at them from the curve of some cruel mirro...”
“You were not surprised to find yourself ill adapted to the world, but it did surprise you that the world had produced a being who now lived in it as a foreigner. Do plants commit suicide? Do animal...”
“It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”
“Sons of suicides seldom do well.”
“Looking at suicidethe sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behindis harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is ...”
“But if someone had slowed him down, just slightly interrupted his course, maybe he could have gotten through that one nightmarish moment; maybe he would never get that close to it again.”
“Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.”
“If you want to commit suicide why tell anyone? They'd ruin everything.”
“The last time I saw you, you were wearing a white cotton shirt. You were standing upright with your wife on the lawn, in the sunlight, in front of the chateau, at my brothers wedding. You shared in...”
“The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.”
