Lorna Luft Quotes

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

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

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

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

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.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

Suicide is not a remedy.