#suicide

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#death

When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy of poppies. But when it came right down to it, the sink of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#suicide #death

I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward. ↗

— Albert Borris

#suicide #death

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#death #emily-gold #love #suicide #death

sometimes life isn’t worth the pain. i’m going for a swim. goodbye, my love. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#drowning #romance #suicide #tattoo #teen

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#husband #i #mutual #pact #sign

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#call #dyed #hand #her #own

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#destructive #feeling #life #lives #living

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bomb #bombers #combatants #enemy #enemy combatants

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing. ↗

— George Carey

#condemn #deal #great #great deal #israelis