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Quotes About Suicide

Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just borrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.
~ Daniel Keyes
No, no - you have to understand, Lysander, here in Vienna, in this ramshackle empire of ours, suicide is a perfectly reasonable course of action. Everyone will know your true feelings and why you had no choice but to do it - no one will condemn you or blame you.
~ William Boyd
So the next day we all said, She will kill herself; and we said it would be the best thing.
~ William Faulkner
So the next day we all said, "She will kill herself"; and we said it would be the best thing.
~ William Faulkner
Suicide iss just for the body," the German said. "The body settles nothing. It iss of no importance. It iss just to be kept clean when possible.
~ William Faulkner
all writing worth reading comes, like suicide, from outrage or revenge
~ William Gaddis
I can't imagine cutting my wrists in Pokheepsie
~ William Gaddis
I guess we all know somebody like him, talk him out of suicide till the day one of you finally dies in bed like talking to yourself most of the time . . .
~ William Gaddis
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet. Book One THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER
~ William L. Shirer
LONDON, March 16 Ed telephoned from Vienna. He said Major Emil Fey has committed suicide after putting bullets through his wife and nineteen-year-old son. He was a sinister man. Undoubtedly he feared the Nazis would murder him for having double-crossed them in 1934 when Dollfuss was shot. I return to Vienna day after tomorrow. The crisis is over. I think we've found something, though, for radio with these round-ups.
~ William L. Shirer
But not by Hermann Goering. He cheated the hangman. Two hours before his turn would have come he swallowed a vial of poison that had been smuggled into his cell. Like his Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, and his rival for the succession, Heinrich Himmler, he had succeeded at the last hour in choosing the way in which he would depart this earth, on which he, like the other two, had made such a murderous impact.
~ William L. Shirer
Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
~ Chris Cleave
Borderline mothers who threaten or attempt suicide keep their children emotionally trapped, and their children may suffer from extreme anxiety even as adults.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
The trickiest thing about not killing yourself is knowing that if one day you decide it was a mistake, then you'll always be able to rectify it. Opting against suicide may be a choice for life, but it's not for life.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
To kill yourself was to say to your family members, I can no longer live with myself. To vanish was to say, I can no longer live with you.
~ Heidi Julavits
What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
~ Henning Mankell
Due eserciti che si combattono, sono come un sol grande esercito che si suicida.
~ Henri Barbusse
It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.
~ Henri Barbusse
Përpjekjet për vetëvrasje shihen shpesh, nga stafi i spitalit, me përbuzje e mospërfillje – dështim si në jetë dhe në vdekje dhe si mjete të fatkeqësisë vetjake
~ Henry Marsh
That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions was impossible; that one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.
~ Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina"
Qué haré? —dije—. Es una pena suicidarse después de haber vivido noventa y nueve años sin entender nada.
~ Leonora Carrington
When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.
~ Leora Tanenbaum