71 Quotes by Michael Thomas Ford

That sounds weird: “kill yourself.” It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

Once you realise there’s nothing to be afraid of when you die, there’s nothing else to worry about.

I’m tired of people thinking they’re doing me favours.

If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn’t to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn’t our fault.

No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you’re all tragic.

I realized that all those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves, and that getting to breathe underwater or shoot fire from your fingers didn’t really make up for being screwed up in the first place. It was just the consolation prize – you got the great costume and the invisible jet for being a loser in everything else.

Anyone can be crazy. That’s usually just because there’s something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

No one ever tells you that when your heart breaks, you can feel it. But you can. It feels like something has crumbled inside you and the pieces are falling into your stomach. It hurts more than any punch ever could. You stop breathing, and for a while you can’t remember how. When you finally do, it feels like your throat has closed up, like you’re trying to suck air through a straw.