Sarah Kane Quotes

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.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

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

Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

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.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

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

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

I don't persuade to suicide.

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.

He killed himself for wanting to live.

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.

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

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

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.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.