Susanna Kaysen Quotes

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

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

Suicide is the only way out.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

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

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

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.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

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 never felt like dying was a good idea.

Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.

Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.

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.

Kill me, I don't care. I do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

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.

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.

She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

This morning a terrible family tragedy has occurred, we are devastated to report that our beloved brother, son, and friend, Sawyer Sweeten, took his own life. He was weeks away from his 20th birthday. At this sensitive time, our family requests privacy and we beg of you to reach out to the ones you love.