1,990 Quotes About Suicide

  • Author Anne Sexton
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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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  • Author Anne Stevenson
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    Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

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  • Author Bruce Sterling
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    We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

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