"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."

-- Georges Bernanos

#Suicide Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Tempted Quotes

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

Source : Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.”
“I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.”
“Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.”
“Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.”

Source : Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.57, Faber & Faber
“If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.”
“My court skills may have atrophied.”
“How you define a problem shapes how you address it.”

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