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    Nina LaCour
    “And I want to tell you about everything but I can't because I couldn't stand for you to have that look on your face all the time. I just need you to look at me and think that I'm normal. I just really need that from you.”
    ― Nina LaCour, Hold Still
    tags: regret, suicide, suicide-note
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    David Mitchell
    “People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: death, guilt, selfishness, suffering, suicide
    1360 likes

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    Phoebe Stone
    “Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
    ― Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street
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    “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 a note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.”
    ― Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
    tags: depression, suicide
    1639 likes

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  • #5
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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  • #6
    Nina LaCour
    “I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”
    ― Nina LaCour, Hold Still
    tags: friendship, hurt, love, suicide, suicide-note
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: arthur-schopenhauer, death, right, schopenhauer, suicide, title
    911 likes

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  • #8
    George Sand
    “We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
    ― George Sand, Mauprat
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    Nina LaCour
    “My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
    ― Nina LaCour, Hold Still
    tags: lost, nina-lacour, sad, suicide
    759 likes

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  • #10
    Emilie Autumn
    “Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: suicide
    765 likes

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    Jennifer Niven
    “People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: all-the-bright-places, death, dying, jennifer-niven, life, suicide
    779 likes

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  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Orson Scott Card
    “In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
    What is it then?'
    It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
    tags: shame, suicide
    334 likes

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    Jasmine Warga
    “He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.”
    ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
    tags: boring, depression, escape, life, mental-illness, suicide
    226 likes

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  • #15
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete ”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
    tags: suicide
    138 likes

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    Lynda Barry
    “Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.”
    ― Lynda Barry, Cruddy
    tags: drugs, first-sentence, suicide
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    Jojo Moyes
    “I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
    tags: choice, freedom, suicide
    106 likes

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  • #19
    “How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”
    ― Deborah Curtis, Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
    tags: death, joy-division, life, living, suicidal, suicide
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    Suzanne Finnamore
    “Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.”
    ― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
    tags: cheating, death, divorce, infidelity, marriage, seperation, suicide
    104 likes

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  • #21
    Markus Zusak
    “He killed himself for wanting to live.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, life, suicide
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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.”
    ― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
    tags: death, suicide
    119 likes

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  • #23
    “Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.”
    ― Hannah Wright
    tags: suicide
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    Jennifer Niven
    “Is today a good day to die?

    Is today the day?
    And if not today–when?”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: awake, die, finch, suicide, today
    79 likes

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  • #25
    Jasmine Warga
    “I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.”
    ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
    tags: drawing, friendship, love, perspective, suicide, teenagers
    207 likes

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  • #26
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
    tags: jeffrey-eugenides, pretend-happiness, suicide, the-virgin-suicides
    72 likes

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  • #27
    “The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.”
    ― Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying
    tags: judgment, society, suicide
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    Nina LaCour
    “This is what I want so don't be sad.”
    ― Nina LaCour, Hold Still
    tags: friendship, love, regret, sad, suicide, suicide-note
    217 likes

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  • #29
    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: mental-health, suicide, support, understanding-life, understanding-oneself-and-others, understanding-others, words-have-power
    32 likes

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  • #30
    “Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery.”
    ― Gene Lester David Lester
    tags: suicide
    23 likes



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