Suicide Quote by David Foster Wallace

““The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be.””

David Foster Wallace

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“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only…

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“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”

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“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been ... overlooked ; and then that horrific interval between…

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“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic…

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“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it's because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that's where phrases like 'deadly dull' or 'excruciatingly dull' come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic…

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“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only a matter of time before you start believing deep down that everything is sales and marketing, and that whenever somebody seems like they care about you or about some noble idea or cause, that person is…

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“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?”

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If I died If I died tonight would you notice? Would you even care? If I died tonight would you find it humorous? Would you even remember me being there? If I died tonight, then my conquest would end in failure, Because I would not get to tell you that I love you every single day. I would never have…

My bodies cold lips are blue why did I do this because of you? I feel the earth below me like a pillow under my head no knives, no guns, but pills instead The bottle lays empty cap unscrewed what did I do? what did I do? My spirit floats my body lays my lover finds me and he prays…

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“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.”

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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…

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“And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to sketch a hurried outline. He has finished it before they move; he hears their voices, though he cannot hear their words, and wonders what they can be talking of. Presently he walks on, and joins them. 'You have…

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