Modern world Quote by John Shirley

“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb”

— John Shirley

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

— Joy Ellis

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

— Nina LaCour

“I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I always felt like half of my life was hers, but I wonder if she didn’t feel that half my disease was hers, too.”

— Tracy Guzeman

“She would be very much annoyed," he said to himself, "if she should see that... she would cough most dreadfully, and she would pretend…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without…

— Anna White

“She would die of him or be cured.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I am having a crisis, she thought. I suddenly feel a new fragile sense of myself in this world and it's unbearable.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“He never understood when she said that if she went to a doctor, the doctor would only invent a disease that would explain why…

— Garth Stein

“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

“No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to think…

— Stieg Larsson