Quotes by Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Self Harm

Suicidal

Suicide

A thought is a hard thing to control.

Hard

Hard Things

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

Girl Interrupted

Kitchen

Suicide

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Crowds

Purpose

Way

Are you crazy? It’s a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

Crazy

Mean

Tunnels

Being crasy doesn’t mean to be broken…It is you and me amplified”, Girl, Interrupted

Broken

Girl

Mean

But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.

Suicide

Would Be

Years

Confuse was the nurses’ word for abuse.

Abuse

Nurse

Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

Children

Crazy

Lying

Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

Angel

Depression

Real

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Abuse

Achievement

Ambition

Angel

Believe

Black And White

Boredom

Broken

Cake

Causes

Cells

Character

Children

Claims

Clothes

Cold

Cold Heart

Conscious

Country

Crazy

Crowds

Cry

Cutting

Data

Depression

Despair

Distance

Doors

Driving

Emptiness

Expectations

Eye

Facts

Fall

Fascination

Feelings

Feels

Flower

Girl

Girl Interrupted

Glasses

Gone

Greek

Growing Up

Hair

Happy Endings

Hard

Hard Things

Heart

Inspirational

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Quotes by Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

A thought is a hard thing to control.

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Are you crazy? It’s a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

Being crasy doesn’t mean to be broken…It is you and me amplified”, Girl, Interrupted

But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.

Confuse was the nurses’ word for abuse.

Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

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