Suicide Quotes - Page 11

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Absolutely.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

Cos every breath is unbearably painful

Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

(...) Since I was a kid."
"Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
"Right.

Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.

After all, suicide is contagious.

I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.

I don't-" I shake my head. (...)
"What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

Owen: depressed people don't have the energy to kill themselves. that's what mr clark said
Owen: he said it's not when people are depressed that you have to worry about them. it's when someone depressed suddenly has energy. that means they decided to kill themselves. to act
Owen: and that makes them happy

What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside; it's about the inside.

He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

The minutes felt as long as years and I couldn't be in the sort of time that didn't move, that instead stood still and all I could think of was being allowed to die, being allowed to cut the thread of time forever.

There is no afterlife for wilted flowers like me.