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“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.”

Thinking Way Want Looks Doe Ends Happens Age Young Five Twenties Suicide Rounds Commit Old Age Mist Twenty Five

Book:Other people: a mystery story

Source: Other people: a mystery story

“Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.”

People Five Demand Percent Died Twenties Suicide Photograph Splendid

Author:Kobo Abe

“He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.”

Years Death Cutting Twenties Suicide Years Of Life

Author:Horace

“Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.”

Ifs Feels Years Made Would Be Running Felt Example Serious Poet Female Twenties Suicide Thirty Helpful Twenty One Running Out Of Time Plath

Author:Margaret Atwood

“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.”

“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.”

Knows Persons Age Dies Five Drug Behavior Twenties Suicide Accidents Unhappiness Odds Reckless Twenty Five Overdose Leukemia

Book:Limitations

Source: Limitations

“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.”

Ifs Littles Problem Lasts Artist Hours Heard Minutes Poet Reader Scientist Twenties Suicide Commit Better Off Exhilaration Committing Suicide Re Entry

Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”