Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

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

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

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

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

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

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

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

Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.

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

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

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.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

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.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

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