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“What if I just want to die?" "Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.”

Book:Never Eighteen

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“With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery]. - Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID)”

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Author:Bethany Brand

“As modern neurobiologists point out, the repetition of the traumatic experience in the flashbacks can be itself re-traumatizing; if not life-threatening, it is at least threatening to the chemical structure of the brain and can ultimately lead to deterioration. And this would also seem to explain the high suicide rate of survivor, for example, survivors of Vietnam.”

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Book:Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History

Source: Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History

“I will kill myself soon. But until then, how do I tame my pain?”

Suicidal Thoughts Suicidality

Book:Wave

Source: Wave

“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.”

Suicide Suicidality

Book:Loitering: New & Collected Essays

Source: Loitering: New & Collected Essays

“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossiblity of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded; one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

Death Mental Health Suicidality

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Edwards knew that the constant spending and deliberate time-wasting was taking a toll. 'I know that if I get to the end of this year I'll have no dignity left at all,' he said. 'It's all gone. I live in a big fantasy world... It's sad.' He'd often end the day drinking even more to block out the world and allow him to get to sleep.”

Suicide Mental Illness Alcoholic Suicidality Fantasy World Loss Of Dignity Shopohlic

Book:A Version of Reason: In Search of Richey Edwards

Source: A Version of Reason: In Search of Richey Edwards

“A human is a quantum supercomputer that has the ability to comprehend, master, and lead things on earth and in the skies. The point is to learn how to enable those abilities within and reach the maximum potential of our innate abilities.”

Quantum Computing Innate Wisdom Innate Ability Innate Nature Super Computer Human Abilities Human Ability

Author:Aiyaz Uddin

“I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time.”

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Book:Reluctant Immortals

Source: Reluctant Immortals

“Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck with this problem. You finally take it home and it wants to keep you up all night and cries when it isn’t sucking on various parts of your anatomy. It wants you there for everything – rocking, feeding, burping, changing... It’s ridiculous. If I wanted a kid I would have one. Until then, grow the hell up and stand on your own two feet, you little crazy.”

Humor Relationships Crazy Drunk Needy

Author:Chase Brooks

“With regard to beasts, the noble man [acts] as follows. When he sees them alive, he cannot bear to see them die. When he hears their sounds, he cannot bear to eat their flesh. Therefore the noble man keeps a distance from the kitchen.” (Mencius 1A.7)”

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Book:Confucianism

Source: Confucianism

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