Edward Hoagland Quotes

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

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

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

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

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

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

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.