Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

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

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.