Suicide Quote by John Irving Download Open image ““There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean".”” — John Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Suicide
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Mother: “I’m amazed that more people don’t commit suicide. They just keep on living. It’s so hard and they just keep doing it.” Useful” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“think suicides are the saddest deaths of all. It means someone has decided that life has no part for them to play any more.” — Stephen Booth Copy Share Image
“Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.” — Robert E. Neale Copy Share Image
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Suicide is not the need, will and desire to leave oneself; it is not risking to stay.” — Hala Alzaghal Copy Share Image
“People always mean well, but they don’t understand that when you’re seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive.… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“Suicides also involuntarily prove that life has a meaning, for their despair is due to the fact that life does not fulfill their arbitrary and contradictory demands. These demands could only be fulfilled if life were devoid of meaning; the non-fulfillment proves that life has a meaning which these persons, owing to their irrationality, do not wish to know (instances:… — vladimir solovyov Copy Share
“Suicide is something that hangs around forever, dropping load after load of guilt on the living.” — J.A. Jance Copy Share Image
“SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose; when, where and how to die. ― John Zea” — John Zea Copy Share Image
“Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“Personally and professionally, it’s been my experience that suicidal people very much want to live. What they don’t want is to be in pain.… — Michelle Stevens Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said crossly. "LOOK AT THOSE WEIRDO TV MIRACLE-WORKERS--THEY'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC! BUT THE REAL MIRACLES AREN'T ANYTHING YOU CAN SEE--THEY'RE THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING. IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE,… — John Irving Copy Share
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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… — Me Copy Share
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… — Nik Is Dead Copy Share
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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… — Nathan Daniels Copy Share
“Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no longer have the courage to carry on past some recent painful experience. They commit what is, in the end,… — Mary Beth Miller Copy Share
“No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“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… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share