“What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“Being suicidal is really tiring. A lot of suicides are so lacking in affect and so lethargic that they aren’t able to kill themselves until their mood improves—spring, for that reason, has the highest rate of what people in the business call “completed” suicides.”
― Loitering: New & Collected Essays
― Loitering: New & Collected Essays
“Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”
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“Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”
― The Secret Sharer and other stories
― The Secret Sharer and other stories
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