Susanna Kaysen Quotes

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

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.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

A book is a suicide postponed.

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.

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

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

I don't persuade to suicide.

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

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

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

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

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

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

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

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

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.