199 quotes found
“The one who had not ever conceived his own annulment, who had not foreseen the resource of the cord, the bullet, the poison or the sea, is a debased prisoner or a crawling worm on the cosmic carrio...”
“People always seem so shock and horrified when they find out some one committed suicide. They then always ask the How? What I want is not the How? But the Why? And maybe then, we can prevent it.”
“It's brutal to realize that someone might find a life with you in it unbearable.”
“The leave zipped right by. We were so terrifically glad to be back to our own little section of the trench, with all its happy memories, that we wouldnt have traded places with anybody. The lazy ba...”
“We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.”
“You arent the thing that needs to change. Its that you are overcome by your situation, by the way the world has descended on you. There is much in you that is young and new and not just in you. In...”
“The world isnt the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.”
“ Some people forget, do you know they forget what it is like to be young, to feel things ruthlessly, terribly. If you forget that much of life, well, I dont know.”
“As I sat in the office of the cure, he began to speak and explain to me what it was. I was there, and I had no choice but to continue, it seemed there was nothing but that, nothing else and yet, i...”
“Suicide isn't really about death, though. It's about change. Release.”
“I could feel the weight of everything then --- the weight of loneliness, of everything that had gone wrong. I felt heroic, going up those last few flights to the top of the building, dragging that ...”
“Look at the statistics. You're more likely to top yourself if you've just gone through a divorce. Or if you're anorexic. Or if you're unemployed. Or if you're a prostitute. Or if you've fought in a...”
“Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing until you can't take anymore, and then it's off to the nearest multistory car park in the family hatchback with a length of rubber tubing. Surely that's fair...”
“You can't stop a man from stopping himself.”
“When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are ther...”
“Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.”
“But this is all chasing after the wind. The essence of the suicides consisted not of sadness or mystery but simple selfishness. The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. The...”
“I make my own quotes here's oneSuicide does help it helps make you realize that people care about you and they need you in life”
“She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.”
“Contemporary consciousness is no longer equipped to deal with our mortality. Never in any other time, or any other civilization, have people thought so much or so contantly about aging. Each indivi...”
