“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”
― Hold Still
― Hold Still
“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 ”
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy ”
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The type of like "I'm shit and the world'd be better off without poor me" type that says that but also imagines what everybody'll say at their funeral. I've met types like that on wards. Poor-me-I-hate-me-punish-me-come-to-my-funeral. Then they show you a 20 X 25 glossy of their dead cat. It's all self-pity bullshit. It's bullshit. I didn't have any special grudges. I didn't fail an exam or get dumped by anybody. All these types. Hurt themselves. I didn't want to especially hurt myself. Or like punish. I don't hate myself. I just wanted out. I didn't want to play anymore is all. I wanted to just stop being conscious. I'm a whole different type. I wanted to stop feeling this way. If I could have just put myself in a really long coma I would have done that. Or given myself shock I would have done that. Instead.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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