Adrienne Rich Quotes

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

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.

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

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Suicide kills two people.

She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.