Integrity is the cure for unhappiness. Period. Of all the strategies and skills I’ve ever learned, the ones that actually work are those that help people see where they’ve abandoned their own deep sense of truth and followed some other set
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“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama — a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience.”
― Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
― Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.”
― Mouchette
― Mouchette
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