Fiona Apple Quotes

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

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

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Slow-motion suicide

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

I never abused anybody but myself.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

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.

I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.