But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
Your plans are suicidal. At best.
I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.
I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends. . . But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that's a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel so much better to think about it. Sometimes it eases the terror, the sense that I am condemned eternally to this hell.
It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al. ) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable.
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 with a dying hand on a picture of his wife goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when I left. ” “You do have that effect on people.
I've never been lonely. I've been in a room. . . I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful. . . awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me. . . or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.
I have a plan. ” He groaned. “I was afraid of that. ” “My plans are not terrible. ” “Isabelle’s plans are terrible. ” He pointed a finger at her. “Your plans are suicidal. At best. ” She sat back, her arms crossed over her chest. “Do you want to hear it or not? You have to keep it a secret. ” “I would pluck out my own eyes with a fork before I would give away your secrets,” Simon said, then looked anxious. “Wait a second. Do you think that’s likely to be required?
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
My wife made me join a bridge club. . . I jump off next Tuesday.
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.
I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.