#suicide

With the minivan in the air, rolling counterclockwise, the engine racing, Laurie screaming -- a fraction of a second, that's all -- Jacob would have thought of me -- who had held him, my own baby, looked down into his eyes -- and he would have understood I loved him, no matter what, to the very end -- as he saw the concrete wall flying forward to meet him. ↗

— William Landay

#jacob #love #murder #suicide #tears

Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life. ↗

— John Gray

#dying-animals #humans #life #straw-dogs #suicide

Sometimes you just gotta hope for the hope of having hope some day. ↗

— Jeffery Thompson

#hopelessness #inspirational #suicide #inspirational

Don't make a permanent solution to a temporary situation. ↗

— Unknown

#inspirational #suicide #truth #inspirational

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#suicide #death

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#death #heaven #suicide #death

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#death #euthanasia #age

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#being #bombers #born #growing #growing up

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide. ↗

— Joshua Logan

#caught #dead #defeat #go #going