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3661421 When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love. existence hate love menthal pill suicidal other decide hospital kill die insane Paulo Coelho
01bf7ed He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion. suicide depression danger-to-self depressive depressive-thinking indifferent look-for-hope look-for-jesus why-the-world-needs-jesus baggage emotional-plague emotional-pain apathy suicidal dread burden sick guilt sad Joseph Conrad
28af5f2 I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort. iris-murdoch world-weary suicidal tired depressed Iris Murdoch
ab55de7 I have nobody in the world. I'll kill myself. That's best. Everyone will say, It's for the best that she killed herself, she's better off dead . . . I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it . . . depression the-black-prince iris-murdoch suicidal self-loathing self-hatred Iris Murdoch
b9a97cb "Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell." "Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it!" "I can't. I'm hell, myself." suffering the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch dialogue suicidal trapped depressed release hell Iris Murdoch
995b2e2 I've been so unhappy for years, so unhappy . . . I don't understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive. suffering unending unendurable the-black-prince iris-murdoch unhappy suicidal miserable Iris Murdoch
374a2b7 Let me sleep at last. I've had misery enough in my life. You said there was nowhere to go to. There is death to go to. I've had misery enough in my life. sleep escape desperate the-black-prince iris-murdoch suicidal misery Iris Murdoch
7d9be3a I just want to serve and help people and be good to everybody, only it always goes wrong somehow--I think about suicide all the time, every bloody day I want to die and stop this torture, but I go crawling on . . . I'm so Christ-awful bloody lonely I could scream with it for hours on end. loneliness desperate rejected unlucky the-black-prince iris-murdoch selfless suicidal Iris Murdoch
ce22cd8 What the cold light showed me was that my situation was simply unlivable. I wanted, with a desire greater than any desire which I had ever conceived could exist without instantly killing its owner by spontaneous combustion, something which I simply could not have. unlivable the-black-prince iris-murdoch wanting suicidal hopeless unrequited-love Iris Murdoch
44ce3d2 "I do not know what I would do if you left me." For the first time I felt the suggestion of a threat in his voice--or I put it there. "I have been alone so long--I do not think I would be able to live if I had to be alone again." relationship romantic-relationship giovanni-s-room james-baldwin suicidal threat James Baldwin
89a7db8 He felt life more clearly too--even, perhaps especially, when he came to decide that it wasn't worth the candle. suicide feelings life suicidal the-sense-of-an-ending julian-barnes sensitive Julian Barnes