#suicide

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#boys #death #emotion #gender #history

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #freedom #suicide #freedom

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#sadness #suicide #therapy #funny

I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time. ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#self-awareness #suicide #life

I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me - I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me to care about others. ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#friends #hope #love #realization #suicide

(…) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves) ↗

— Jess Walter

#finance #humor #suicide #money

. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would, it is because we have reasons for living, or at the very least real hope that we can find such reasons. Then the next question is: what are the reasons I personally have for saying ‘No’ to that question? The answer contains the meaning of my life. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#life #meaning #philosophical #philosphy #question

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#teen-suicide #tragedy #teen

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. ↗

— Jay Asher

#teen-suicide #thirteen-reasons-why #teen

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#optimism #suicide #suicide