I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child’s conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our...

Everyone’s a liar. Everyone I’ve ever known.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: ‘No hard feelings, everyone, but I’ve thought about it and it’s just not on, is it? It’s nearly...

Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence, and never sleep again. (It will be I?) Or dream (dream again), dream of a silence,...

No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never...

Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated...

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.

I’m the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.

Vivre, naturellement, n’est jamais facile. On continue à faire les gestes que l’existence commande, pour beaucoup de raisons dont la première est l’habitude. Mourir volontairement suppose qu’on a reconnu, même instinctivement, le caractère dérisoire de...

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn’t decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.

If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night.

I am a dumb piece of meatand I rot everydaymy flesh gives a rotting smelland people say it’s the smell of lifeand they come to meand watch me rotand get happy and upset and annoyed...

I want to end my life by eating so much Viagra that I go out like that movie and Die Hard. If you want to watch, I just made popcorn.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and...

Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery.

Zwykle zapominamy, że decyzję o popełnieniu samobójstwa bardzo częstopodejmują racjonalnie myślący i całkiem zdrowi psychicznie ludzie, którzy po prostudochodzą do wniosku, że życie nie ma im już nic więcej do zaoferowania – ciągnął Aune. –...

In reality of everyday occurrences I’ve had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It’s less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what...

Cory wondered if maybe some people were better off dead. When you’re dead you don’t have to face the horrors of life, whether it’s striving to be the best, dealing with something bad you or...

Just as ceremonial fasting was a legitimate means for getting God’s attention (Mt 6:16-18; Ac 13:2-3; 14:23), the casting of lots was a legitimate means for inviting God to intercede on a matter. (Pr 18:18)...

Is today a good day to die?Is today the day?And if not today–when?

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching...

I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn’t be able to handle it, that I was too sheltered or too innocent or something. If she had...

The reason I don’t Kill Myselfis because I know I can.

The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

LADY LAZARUSI have done it again.One year in every tenI manage it–A sort of walking miracle, my skinBright as a Nazi lampshade,My right footA paperweight,My face a featureless, fineJew linen.Peel off the napkinO my enemy.Do...

He is always on the brink of suicide… because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.

Life can be messy.No doubt, a lot of these kids are living proof.But in spite of their anxieties and their angers,At least- They Are trying to live.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It’s just too much for them.

I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. Thetwo long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on...

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

A suicide makes a fault in a novel, as suicides make a fault in life.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to...

I know people think suicide is selfish, and maybe sometimes it really is. But what happened to Kai was beyond what anyone should have to cope with. I didn’t blame him, not really. It just...

People’re always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people’ll claw their way up and walk due west to the throne of Jesus to be...

I know the difference between right and wrong. Right is when I do everything he tells me to. Wrong is when I question why. But every now and then a simple slap across the side...

I am so exhausted and bored of my life. I should try something extreme, it must promise a lot of fear and pain but end with eternal silence, like suicide.

Razorblades and Cyanide.” That should come as no surprise, as we have seven bridges from which to jump from.

No, it really isn’t, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn’t fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize...

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn’t just sad and slow music. It’s a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the...

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not...

The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.