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“What he knows now is that guilt isnt the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.”
“Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.”
“Every man has a right to kill himself.”
“The girl who climbed up the water tower. We would have counted her an accident until the medical examiner found breaks and fractures from her hips to her heels. "You fall head first," he said. "Fee...”
“I could have forced myself to adapt," said Taads. "In this world the individual self is of such importance that it is allowed to become absorbed in itself and to grub around in its trivial personal...”
“Think of the old clich about the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master. This, like many clichs, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth....”
“All girls who seemed to have everything going for them. And decided they had nothing.”
“David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more angles than any other human. In more than twenty-five-...”
“Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but...maybe the truth is, I didn't--I don't--much care one way or th'other.”
“Three: You don't know what it's likeSeven: To do a cartwheel followed by a somersault followed by wishing so hard you could fold your hands into a pistol and no longer exist.”
“So you want to commit suicide,huh? Why? Life doesn't compel you to choose that way.Generally People makes you commit suicide.And those who makes you feel bad,trust my word, they don't care about yo...”
“I was right; just as soon as you take the first step toward getting to know someone your own age, everything you thought was magical about that person turns to shit right in front of your face”
“Snap out it' is abusive. It kicks people when they are down. It makes people in pain feel more hopeless, more powerless, more frustrated, more estranged from humanity. It says, 'I don't want to be ...”
“Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of da...”
“Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people.”
“All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.”
“It's not so easy for people to end their own lives. It's not like in the movies. There, they do it like nothing, no pain, and it's all over, they're dead. The reality is not like that. You lie in b...”
“Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset.”
“The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand.”
“Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?”
