Suicide proverbs

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◆ I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

- Ned Vizzini99

◆ 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 suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don't!' and ‘Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

- David Foster Wallace99

◆ I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

- David Levithan99

◆ A lot of you cared, just not enough.

- Jay Asher99

◆ But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

- Albert Camus99

◆ and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

- Ned Vizzini99

◆ The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

- Tennessee Williams99

◆ The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ Everything...affects everything

- Jay Asher99

◆ I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

- Ned Vizzini99

◆ I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

- Seneca99

◆ Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

- Susanna Kaysen99