7 Quotes by Anne Sexton about suicide

  • Author Anne Sexton
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    But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have so simply declared myself,have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,have taken on his craft, his magic.

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    Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I’m hung up on it.

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    [I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

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  • Author Anne Sexton
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    Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

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  • Author Anne Sexton
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    Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

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  • Author Anne Sexton
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    But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

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