#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

#suicide

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

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

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. ↗

— Albert Camus

#suicide #mathematics

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#ennui #suicide #boredom

I lay on my floor crying again… shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth was dry as I sucked on air that seemed to keep getting thicker and harder to breathe. I tried to leave again, but ended up leaning my forehead against the door, feeling defeated and wishing the Grim Reaper would come for me in all his silky, black glory. ↗

— Nathan Daniels

#anxiety #non-fiction #self-harm #suicide #anxiety

The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#save-a-life #suicide #life