By Category: Death

“Suicide is the ultimate fuck you.”

-Ginger Snaps [movie]

Recommended by Elsa.

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“When you don't want to feel, death can seem like a dream. But seeing death, really seeing it, makes dreaming about it fucking ridiculous.”

-Girl, Interrupted [movie]

Recommended by Jaine.

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“I felt like a spy. The camera had caught them in the middle of a smile, in the middle of the day, in the middle of their lives. They were looking into the lens for each other and themselves. Could they have imagined that a girl like me, hungry and feverish, would drink in the details of their privacy, so many years after they were gone? I knew how it had ended for them. but I wanted not to know because they didn't know it themselves. It made the pictures so sad. I felt like some dwarfed and fallen god who could create nothing and change nothing, but could predict their fate with cruel certainty. I could point to each of them and say, You will die of consumption in your twenty-ninth year. You will marry a man you do not love and never have children. You will drink yourself insane. You will live well into your nineties and neither of your daughters will forgive you -- you will die alone. The sorrows that were set to happen to them had already happened. I knew what was coming, and like a train wreck that couldn't be stopped, I wanted to cover my eyes so I wouldn't see the smoke and the burning.”

-Color is the Suffering of Light, Melissa Green

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“It's all a joke to them. Oh he's just sad, he's just overweight, he's just lazy. No, he wants to die. He wants to burn. He wants to never wake up again. Turn the ignore back on.”

-grouphug.us

Recommended by Ronan.

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“But mother was cremated. This means that she was put into a coffin and burned and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. I do not know what happens to the ash and I couldn't ask at the crematorium because I didn't go to the funeral. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up into the sky and I think that there are molecules of Mother up there, or in clouds of Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rain forests in Brazil, or in snow somewhere.”

-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

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“Hard is it to die, because our delicate flesh doth shrink back from the worm it will not feel, and from that unknown which the winding-sheet doth curtain from our view. But harder still, to my fancy, would it be to live on, green in the leaf and fair, but dead and rotten at the core, and feel that other secret worm of recollection gnawing ever at the heart.”

-She, H. Rider Haggard

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“The world has started spinning backwards.
Only the acceleration has increased.
When you noticed, it was dark before your feet.
You were standing at the edge of a cliff.

You can't pull back.
Even if you turn pale nothing will happen.

With the light you've sharpened to the utmost,
you continue persistently even if the end of this path is
the end of the world.

There's more to life
than money or honor.
You will forever pretend not to understand.
It's frightening to notice and get hurt.

Your dream at that time, your wishes,
They were all granted, but...
Faster than everyone, you even pass the wind.
Higher than everyone, you even pierce the clouds.
Even if you live too quickly.”

-Too Late, Ayumi Hamasaki

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“You die, O thrice desired,
And my desire has flown like a dream,
Gone with you is the girdle of my beauty,

But I myself must live who am a goddess
And may not follow you.
Kiss me once again, the last, long kiss,
Until I draw your soul within my lips
And drink down all your love.”

-Mythology, Edith Hamilton

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“So cut my wrists and black my eyes
(Cut my wrists and black my eyes)
So I can fall asleep tonight or die.”

-Ohio Is For Lovers, Hawthorne Heights

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“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”

-Morphine, Heinrich Heine

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“'When you talk to the man upstairs,' he said, 'I want you to tell Him something for me. Tell him it ain't right for people to die when they’re young. I mean it. Tell Him if they got to die at all, they got to die when they're old. I want you to tell Him that. I don't think He knows it ain't right, because He’s supposed to be good and it's been going on for a long, long time. Okay?'”

-Catch 22, Joseph Heller

Recommended by Maya.

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“Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow. ”

-A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin

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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

-A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

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“And here it must be said that to call suicides only those who actually destroy themselves is false. Among these, indeed, there are many who in a sense are suicides only by accident and in whose being suicide has no necessary place. Among the common run of men there are many of little personality and stamped with no deep impress of fate, who find their end in suicide without belonging on that account to the type of the suicide by inclination; while, on the other hand, of those who are to be counted as suicides by the very nature of their beings are many, perhaps a majority, who never in fact lay hands upon themselves. [...]
But just as there are those who at the least indisposition develop a fever, so do those whom we call suicides, and who are always very emotional and sensitive, develop at the least shock the notion of suicide. [...]
All suicides are familiar with the struggle against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be felled by life than by one's own hand.”

-Steppenwolf: A Novel, Hermann Hesse

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“I saw no other way of escape from this dreadful spectre. Suppose that today cowardice won a victory over despair, tomorrow and each succeeding day I would again face despair heightened by self-contempt. It was merely taking up and throwing down the knife till at last it was done. Better today then I reasoned with myself as though with a frightened child. But the child would not listen. It ran away. It wanted to live. ”

-Steppenwolf: A Novel, Herman Hesse

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“I thought about how the Boy with No Fear had played cards with the dead, how he'd grinned and thrown an ace on the table, how he'd walked through graveyards without a single shiver, how he knew death from the inside out. I wanted a man like that, one it was impossible to kill, who wouldn't flinch if you wished him dead, who'd already been there and back.”

-The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffman

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“This is what I know, the one and only thing. The best way to die is while you're living. Even for someone like me. You'd laugh to know how long it's taken for me to figure that out, when all I had to do was cross over the mountains. When I walk to my car in the parking lot on winter nights, I have often noticed bats, a black cloud in the darkening sky. They bring me comfort. They make me feel you're not so far away. To think, I used to be afraid. I used to run and hide. Now I stand and look upward. I don't mind what the weather is; the cold has never bothered me. I hope what I'm seeing is the ever after. I hope it's you.”

-The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffman

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“You see those pictures of people in Pompeii and you think, how weird: one quick game of dice after your tea and you're frozen, and that's how people remember you for the next few thousand years. Suppose it was the first game of dice you've ever played? Suppose you were only doing it to keep your friend Augustus company? Suppose you'd at just that moment finished a brilliant poem or something? Wouldn't it be annoying to be commemorated as a dice player?”

-High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

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“My life has been stolen from me.... I wish I could be happy in this peaceful place. But if I had to choose between Richmond and death, I choose death.... You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.”

-The Hours [movie]

Recommended by Rachel.

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“All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over, and the lamps expire.”

-Robert E. Howard [suicide note]

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“The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.”

-Suicide's Note, Langston Hughes

Recommended by Holly.

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“Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.”

-Interview With The Vampire [movie]

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“I enjoy it. Take your aesthetes, tastes, pure things, kill them swiftly if you will, but do it! For do not doubt, you are a killer, Louis!”

-Interview With The Vampire [movie]

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“I knew him well enough not to mourn his passing.”

-Interview With The Vampire [movie]

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“I was 27 years old the first time I died. I remember there was white everywhere. There was war and I felt alive but really I was dead. Sometimes I think we live through things only to be able to say that it happened. That it wasn't to someone else, it was to me. Sometimes we live to beat the odds. I'm not crazy even though they thought I was. I live in the same world as everyone else; I just saw more of it, as I'm sure you have. They'll find my body tomorrow; you can check it out if you don't believe me.... Sometimes life can only really begin with the knowledge of death, that it can all end even when you least want it to. The important thing in life is to believe, while you are still alive, its never too late. I promise you, no matter how bad things look, they look better awake then they do asleep. When you die there is only one thing you want to happen. You want to come back.”

-The Jacket [movie]

Recommended by Kaylee.

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