Justine Larbalestier Quotes

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin, that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear.

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

Kill me, I don't care. I do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete

It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

I have a suicide impulse.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

I kill myself for my body.

Slow-motion suicide

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?