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“ Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom of severe depression, not a character failing or moral flaw. Nor is it, truly, a desire to die so much as a fervent wish not to go on living. All depressives understand that distinction. ”

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One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

~ Sally Brampton

Hope is only the love of life.

~ Sally Brampton

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

~ Sally Brampton

Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, He fought so hard. And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.

~ Sally Brampton