We can endure great pain if we believe it's purposeful.

Ничто не ужасает меня сильнее, чем мысль о том, что когда-нибудь я утрачу способность себя убить.

Если я решу покончить с собой, психологически мне не надо будет далеко ходить, потому что умом и сердцем я более готов к этому, чем к незапланированным повседневным пертурбациям, отмечающим собою каждое утро и каждый полдень.

Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.

I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.

That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.