Anne Sexton Quotes

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

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

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

Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?

Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

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

I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

Some people go shopping - I cut myself.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.