By then there had been other men. She’d flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.

Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don’t kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with...

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one’s slant accordingly—at least...

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History...

Isn’t it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady…should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who needs your love, has been waiting silently, patiently for it all his life, is flawed and...

Strangman shrugged theatrically. “It might,” he repeated with great emphasis. “Let’s admit that. It makes it more interesting—particularly for Kerans. ‘Did I or did I not try to kill myself?’ One of the few existential...

Sometimes,you don’t wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same.

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems...

It’s peculiar to me,’ she said, ‘that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant...

We’re saying the story doesn’t end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.

She was disgusted with herself…and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.

I’ve been accustomed to mysteries, holy and otherwise, since I was a child. Some of us care for orphans, amass fortunes, raise protests or Nielsen ratings; some of us take communion or whiskey or poison....

El suicidio seduce por su facilidad de aniquilación: en un segundo, todo ese absurdo universo se derrumba como un gigantesco simulacro, como si la solidez de sus rascacielos, de sus de sus acorazados, de sus...

You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

It was deeply a part of Lee’s kindness and understanding that man’s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

Stop thinking about the easy way out,There’s no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you’re not done,You’re far too young.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It’s like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them over the bridge, watching the smash, orange, as...

I’m just not having a very good time and I don’t have any reason to think it’ll get anything but worse. I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sad. I feel used.

Oh Google, she thought I was suicidal.

I not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of suffering

She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn’t go on.

When I was ten all I knew was that I hated the weird words used to describe whatever it was that was wrong with my brother—to this day I think it all happened because he...

By four o’clock, I’ve discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

There seemed no answer. He wasn’t resigned to anything, he hadn’t accepted or adjusted to the life he’d been forced into. Yet here he was, eight months after the plague’s last victim, nine since he’s...

A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double,...

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

funny”, you know?I feel taller. I like that.I’ve never been away from my shadow forthis long. It had always clung to my feet,parting momentarily for a quick dive intothe swimming pool. But never for fivehours....

This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.

If you won’t live for yourself than do it for me. If you don’t want to live for me than choose something else. Anything is better than losing another person to that fake paradise that...

But of course it’s always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can’t ever get rid of that.

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...

Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three...

The greatest regret of my military career was as Commanding General of the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, he later wrote of the decision he made. I lost 169 soldiers during that year-long...

The red washingdown the bathtubcan’t change the color of the seaat all.

Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It’s the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity.It’s the power...

Every day I would run to the library to get new books. Reading was a passion: I wanted to understand life. I read Dostoevsky and Brehm, Jules Verne and Turgenev, Dickens and the Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye;...

We don’t know if he was just morose or whether or not this was a contemplation of suicide. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle.

Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.

Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago

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...

I’m fine. Well, I’m not fine – I’m here.””Is there something wrong with that?””Absolutely.

Mary Hepburn was meanwhile murdering herself up in her room, lying on her bed with the polyethylene sheath of her “Jackie dress” swapped around her head. The sheath was now all steamed up inside, and...

That sounds weird: “kill yourself.” It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the...

My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.

She often told me she was frightened of getting old…

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