“The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere.” PeopleChildrenStillsSufferingParentChurchBreakSuicideCommitTransitionHelplessBreaking Down Author:Ravi Zacharias
“In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.” WorldWayFeelsSaidStillsEndsWholeRealityHateLiteratureEasyBreakPaperSuicideConvictionWhole WorldCommitSatisfyingHate YouMaking TimeContradictingDenying Yourself Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.” TryingMindKindHas BeensFeltHoursBreakEffectsMadnessSuicideCalmWork OutInstantSolitaryAstonishingSlippingConfinementStay CalmSolitary Confinement Author:Tahir Shah
“And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)” WorldHeartTurnsBreakThis WorldSuicideNotesSuicidalSuicide Note Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.'” PeopleInspirationalHeartMomentsMotivationalLife IsBreakHealthySuicideSeriesPainfulWell BeingUnexpectedSuicidal ThoughtsBreak Your HeartLife Is GoodPainful MomentsUnexpected Moments Author:Sandra Bullock
“The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour.” MenBodyEarthHoursEnemyBreakOur LivesPrayingTerribleSafeDevilSuicideHarmCommitInsanityNecksLiarsMisfortunesMurdererSuicidalCalamityArches Author:Martin Luther
“For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks - accidentally - and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive.” KnowsLooksDifferentSometimesReasonHappensBreakMorningCuttingAliveHappenedBloodRedOkaySkinsSuicideGlassesEightGraySatisfyingShockingWashingNoonSelf HarmSelf InjuryMutilationPuncture Author:Augusten Burroughs
“We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.” WarRememberFightingBreakFireStrongerSuicideSouthTerrorBombsGrindIraq WarTrianglesInsurgencyRoadsideSnipers Author:Barack Obama
“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” IfsNeedsShouldWritingDoeBookHappinessReadingLove IsBreakSeaSuicideFortuneIllAwakeningIceDistressFrozenFistsSkullsGood God Author:Franz Kafka
“I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help” DoneHelpingBreakMonthsSixMy FriendsSuicideBrokeFallenSuicidalSix MonthsDevastatedBroke Up Author:Aron Ralston
“I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.” MadeLawMy OwnBreakSuicidePropertyConformMurdererObligedMy Own LifeCrooks Author:Michel de Montaigne