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Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract; ↗

— Émile Durkheim

#suicide

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#lost #suicide #suicide

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. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #suicide

Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known. ↗

— Julie Anne Peters

#sad #suicide #suicide

I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering. ↗

— Albert Borris

#self-harm #self-injury #suicide #suicide

There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween... ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn't bother you so much. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-virgin-suicides #you-never-get-over-it #suicide

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

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Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence. ↗

— Sally Brampton

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