Quotes on Suicide

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.