Jean Rhys Quotes

I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

Suicide is the only way out.

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

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

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.

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

I have a suicide impulse.

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

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)

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

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

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

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.