Forget Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she…

— Jane Austen

“With most people suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet…

— jeffrey eugenides

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and…

— Anna Godbersen

“Another five minutes, thought Olivia, and shut her eyes. Not to fall asleep again; but to go back as it were and do the…

— Rosamond Lehmann

“Cecilia knew she could not go on wasting her days in the stews of her untidied room, lying on her bed in a haze…

— Ian McEwan

“But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day:…

— Ernest Hemingway

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

— Honore de Balzac

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night

— Friedrich Nietzsche