Margaret Atwood Quotes

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.