Life Quote by Harry Mathews

“Her experience told her that suicide wasn't a thunderous, unimaginable roar. It was a seductive whisper that stole the people you loved.”

— Wendy Roberts (Remains of the Dead

“She’d read somewhere that suicide was a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”

— Joy Ellis

“She was sick of all the affect, the self-absorption, the constant preoccupation with themselves and their children. No one she knew had saved the…

— Alexa Steele

“Committing suicide just seemed to be another aggressive plan to fix her life.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“One time, she waddled out and showed Peg her bandages from her last suicide attempt, which invokes sympathy in some, but usually makes me…

— David James Keaton

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Her suicide shook me deeply. It changed so much about how I view myself, the work I do with all of you.”

— Nina LaCour

“They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.”

— Frank Herbert

“She thought it would dry his tears and give her some satisfaction as well. It could have worked, I suppose, but the children of…

— Toni Morrison

“Fuck, she was so sick of herself-herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do this shit all the time, this wanting people,…

— Stacia Kane

“I was not altogether surprised to learn that she had taken her own life. I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola