Tom Verlaine Quotes

I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.

A considerable number of the prisoners fell even after a short confinement, into a semi-fatuous condition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them, and others became violently insane; others, still, committed suicide, while those who stood the ordeal better were not generally reformed, and in most cases, did not recover sufficient mental activity to be of any subsequent service to the community.

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

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

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

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

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

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.

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

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.