Dead inside Quote by Holly Hood

“I swallowed all the doubt and all the disappointment and all the anger and they were almost too big, like vitamin pills that are…

— Annabel Pitcher

“Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: 'No hard feelings, everyone, but I've thought…

— Martin Amis

“Every bone in my body was crying out for rest, but I knew if I stopped, and perhaps slept, I would die. I had…

— Marcus Luttrell

“Even though I seem not human, a mute shelf of glucose, bottled blood, machinery to swell the lung and pump the heart—even so, do…

— Dudley Randall

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So…

— Charles Bukowski

“But I’m not going to lie: it was bloody tough not drinking at all for nine months. The only thing that got me through…

— Ruth Ware

“I’d never touched alcohol—doesn’t mix too well with crazy pills—but I knew at that moment what it must feel like to be drunk. Everything…

— Myra McEntire

“I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.”

— Simon Armitage

“Life lies within the chain link of the octagon: the sweat, blood . . . the pain. It’s the only thing that reminds me…

— J.B. Salsbury

“The half-full bottle in front of me, is better than a full-frontal lobotomy.”

— P.S. Mokha

“I will never go home, I thought with a finality that made me catch my breath, and then I walked on, my mind emptying…

— Cheryl Strayed