Successful Suicide Quotes by Susanna Kaysen

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• A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
• ... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.
• This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had…
• It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the…
• Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with…
• An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly…
• A thought is a hard thing to control.
• You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to…
• By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look,…
• Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
• It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.…
• Freedom was the price of privacy.

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