Rainbow Rowell Quotes

Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

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.

I have a suicide impulse.

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

Suicide is the only way out.

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

I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

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

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

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.

The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.

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

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

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.

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.