I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

Jeanette Winterson
Some Similar Quotes
  1. A book is a suicide postponed. - Emil M. Cioran

  2. July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live. - Markus Zusak

  3. How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father? - Ruth Ozeki

  4. The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  5. Everything...affects everything - Jay Asher

More Quotes By Jeanette Winterson
  1. You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap...

  2. As your lover describes you, so you are.

  3. I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

  4. What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop...

  5. Why is the measure of love loss?

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