“In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.” IfsReasonMomentsAbleDrinkSuicideDrinkingAlcoholCommitLowestAlcoholism Author:Eric Clapton
“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.” KnowsWantYearsMadeAbleTimeRealizingMorningCuttingConversationSuicideNineObsessionInsaneThroatEvery MorningPsychiatryPsychiatristAsylumsNine YearsInsane Asylum Author:Antonin Artaud
“Man must be able to recover, to win out, triumph over adversity. And I don't mean just the little adversity like paying his room rent or something. But those deep, deep human adversities because something he has faith in has turned to ashes. Where someone he loves turns out to be just another joke. You get to the point of suicide. But you can bounce back - they can't completely destroy you.” MenHumansMeanLittlesAbleTurnsWinningRoomsJokesAdversitySuicideTriumphHave FaithAshesBounceTriumph Over Adversity Author:Frank Capra
“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.” PeopleMenFeelingsProblemAgeAbleForceWhiteMiddleEffectsHavensExampleHigherDrugSuicideRateAlcoholEtcGet BackArticlesImaginaryWhite ManMiddle AgesRecessionsDemographicsGallopingGreat Recession Author:Rick Moody
“If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.” IfsBelieveStillsEndsSelfProblemAbleHateWillingBehaviorSolutionsSuicideCaringStrikesOptimisticLengthHate YouIf You BelieveSoothing Author:Augusten Burroughs
“That sounds so weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don't think suicide is. It's my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don't think it's a sin.” IfsThinkingWantShouldEndsAbleSoundSinLike YouMurderSuicideKillingKilling YourselfKilling Someone Author:Michael Thomas Ford
“Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.” MenMadeSoulTodayAbleLastsReligionSoundCenturyProveEqualDegreesSuicideAtheistAccomplishSurfaceStatementsCommitAngleInteriorsTheologianNineteenth CenturyFeatsTriangles Author:Carl Sagan
“We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside our solar system that seem to be far enough away from their suns - - and dense enough - - that they might be able to support some form of life. So it makes it increasing less likely that we're alone. But if we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.” IfsKnowsInspirationalYearsHas BeensTwoEnoughSeemsMightMotivationalAbleLastsFormUniverseStarsSupportSunPlanetsHealthyBiggerSuicideBillionsWell BeingFancySomedayTwo YearsTelescopesDenseSuicidal ThoughtsSolar SystemStars And Planets Author:William J. Clinton
“I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. As a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that's something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.” ThinkingInspirationalNeedsShouldImportantMotivationalAgeAbleYoungBlackAwarenessHealthyProtectDegreesSuicideWell BeingFourthBeltsYoung AgeSuicidal ThoughtsBe ConfidentBlack Belt Author:Nia Sanchez
“This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free of ignorance, false beliefs or prejudice. Able to honor each person as they walk their own path and not infringe our own personal beliefs onto them but to accept what ever form that carries truth for them” InspirationalGivingPersonsMotivationalAbleSpiritualFormBeliefUnderstandingWalksAcceptingPathIgnoranceHonorHealthyIntellectualEnlightenmentPrejudiceSuicideWell BeingCarrieSuicidal ThoughtsPersonal Beliefs Author:Jane Seymour
“Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.” MenMeanHas BeensSelfRealityAbleActionTurnsBornExistenceSuicideRoundsAccomplishResilienceNeighborSwingsRustDelayedPendulums Author:Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
“When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.” AbleFoundVoiceBoysSuicideNarrativeReportsStrictVirginsVirgin SuicidesNarrative VoiceStrict Rules Author:Jeffrey Eugenides