“There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night” NightDarkSituationConcernedGoldSuicideSatisfactionBagsDespisedPrecipiceDark NightAntagonistSituations In Life Author:Ernest Bramah
“It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.” IfsWorldDarkCatUniversalSuicideEnjoyedRejectsLogicalSensibleCowardicePrimitiveBlankCynic Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .” PeopleStarsDarkMoralSuicideClarityLandscapeRisingBombingTerminalLynching Book:Spin Source: Spin
“The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.” PeopleStarsDarkMoralEnemyCatholicSuicideAtheistClarityLandscapeRisingImmigrantsSpeakersBombingLegionTerminalLynchingBritsDisgruntledDark Skinned Book:Spin Source: Spin
“Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it's very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they've lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it's most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.” PeopleIfsWorldLoveLifeFeelsWholeLife IsValuesLostDarkAnswersPowerfulWonderConnectionsSuicideWhole WorldCommitLove LifeSevereOne Love Author:Keith Ablow
“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.” PeopleThinkingMayChildrenTurnsGrowsParentDarkGrowing UpColorDrugMessagesDressesSuicideMajorityAlcoholCommitEtcDrugs And AlcoholDark Colors Author:Bernie Siegel
“God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.” IfsActionDarkSleepResponsibilityMorningAirBloodBedRainSuicideWarmCommitGrayThickVeinsSuicidalBeggingWithdrawing Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn. Without a gleaning of purpose in life, we have no vision, we live in strife, -or let blood fall on a suicide knife.” PurposeFallDarkAnswersVisionBloodSuicideMissionsPurpose Of LifeKnivesStrifeSuicidalHornsGleaning Author:Dean Koontz
“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” PeopleWantYearsFirstsStoriesLastsDeathDiesHeavenDarkBrainFailingBrokenComputerRegardSuicideFairyAfterlifeNot AfraidComponentsBroken DownAfraid Of DeathFairy StoriesNot Afraid Of DeathEarly Death Author:Stephen Hawking
“One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living” MadeBodyHandsLyingNightGrowsFeltDarkAirGoes OnLetting GoEarsBreathsSuicideInstinctDumbThroatNurseLocksClosetsOne NightRushingCottonDrawersLoopsSelf HarmCursingScarvesLock UpPillowcases Author:Sylvia Plath
“What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.” LifeDarkBloodInspireColdSuicideEmbraceYieldWorth LivingForgetfulnessStainsLife DeathLife Worth LivingCold HeartLiving Better Author:Zane Grey
“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.” SoulGodDeathSpiritualityEvilDarkFlowerWise WordsSpiritual QuotesDevilGardenSuicideDeath And DyingSpiritual WisdomDeadFlowersSuicidalRottenDeath QuotesSoulsSelf DestructionSelf DestructiveDevilsSelf Killing Author:Munia Khan
“No hole is deep enough to be unclimbable. Not even the one you dug yourself into. Never give up. On yourself.” MotivationalDarkInspireDepressionSuicideInspiredSuicidalDepressedSelf HarmHole Author:Vineet Raj Kapoor
“I think about Finch and Sir Patrick Moore and black holes and blue holes and bottomless bodies of water and exploding stars and event horizons, and a place so dark that light can't get out once it's in.” LightStarsWaterDarkDepressionSuicideAll The Bright Places Book:All the Bright Places Source: All the Bright Places