Devon Windsor Quotes

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

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

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

I have a suicide impulse.

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

I probably suffered with depression.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.