199 quotes found
“Since you seldom spoke, you were rarely wrong. You seldom spoke because you seldom went out. If you did go out, you listened and watched. Now, since you no longer speak, you will always be right. I...”
“(Looking at the tree) Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.”
“Oh Google, she thought I was suicidal.”
“Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.”
“You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When you were still young, your suffering was inconsolable because you believed it to...”
“All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that n...”
“He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that ...”
“Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.”
“People ask why my brother killed himself. "Why would such a gifted journalist, whose works have won all the prizes in the world, do such a thing?" "He had so many friends, why would he want to leav...”
“Life without meaningcannot be borne.We find a missionto which we're sworn--or answer the callof Death's dark horn.Without a gleaningof purpose in life,we have no vision,we live in strife,--or let b...”
“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, ...”
“It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's trueunless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at...”
“Coping with any death is traumatic; suicide compounds the anguish because we are forced to deal with two traumatic events at the same time. According to the American Psychiatric Associations Diagno...”
“Is this some kind of joke?""That's for me to know and you to find out.""Maybe you think it's funny to put up signs about people who want to commit sui”
“Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery.”
“After a long analysis of Robsons suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the term: he, being about to cause an increase of one in the human ...”
“I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.”
“there is rarely any rhyme or reason in suicides. They can be a cry for help gone wrong, or a punishment to those youre leaving behind, or one fateful twenty-minute window when you lose your bearing...”
“HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]J: People do.HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing t...”
“I thought that when someone dies, a person changes. I thought you'd lose yoursense of being judged and caring about this judgement; I thought you'd hold life in thepalm of your hand and dance and w...”