Age Quote by Spalding Gray

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

— Lorna Luft

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the…

— Panos Cosmatos

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a…

— John Green

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide…

— Susanna Kaysen

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more…

— Pam Ferris

I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends ... But to have fate step in and give…

— Martha Manning

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses.…

— Cesare Pavese

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was…

— Lana Del Rey

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't…

— Brigitte Bardot

My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow…

— William J. Clinton

I was convinced that death was stalking my family, because my grandfather died a couple of days after my dad nearly drowned.

— Rebecca Front

…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me,…

— Cheryl Strayed