Susannah McCorkle Quotes

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

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

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

No pills gonna cure my ill.

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

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

I can feel myself dying inside.

I am about to die, God calls me... I have scarcely strength enough to support the last days that remain of my miserable life... I see no salvation for the country. I believe everything is lost forever. If there were a single sacrifice I could make - my life, my happiness or my honour – believe me, I would not hesitate; but I am convinced the sacrifice would be useless. Since I am unable to secure the happiness of my country, I refuse to rule it. Further, the tyrants have taken my native land from me and therefore I have no longer any country for which to make a sacrifice

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

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

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

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

Despair often breeds disease.