I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I’d flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I...

Čia reikia pridurti, jog klaidinga vadinti savižudžiais tik tuos žmones, kurie iš tikrųjų nusižudo. Tarp pastarųjų yra netgi daug tokių, kurie savižudžiais tampa, taip sakant, atsitiktinai, polinkio į savižudybę jie gali ir neturėti. Tarp žmonių,...

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,We people on the pavement looked at him:He was a gentleman from sole to crown,Clean favored, imperially slim.And he was always quietly arrayed,And he was always human when he talked;But...

I would like to write a suicide note in three and a halflanguagesand travel south on a Thursday towardssome form of life outside of earth

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...

Some of the most challenging work a suicide survivor can do is to pray. To pray fully, survivors must bring all of themselves to the prayer: their anger, disappointment, fears, insecurities, and why’s. I bring...

What people don’t understand when you’ve already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don’t want to die. I do not...

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...

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he’d jumped off...

She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was.

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...