suicide quotes

• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. (Antonin Artaud) [suicide/conversation/morning/time]
• If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will. (Antonin Artaud) [suicide/willpower/destroy/suicide]
• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer. (Albert Camus) [problem/suicide/life/question]
• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [look/suicide]
• Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. (Emile Durkheim) [suicide/phenomenon]
• The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. (Havelock Ellis) [suicide/system/point]
• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [truth/suicide/health/human]
• Imitation is suicide. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [suicide]
• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. (Mahatma Gandhi) [suicide]
• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [fortune/suicide]
• There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. (Ernest Hemingway) [death/suicide/wife/people]
• It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [think/suicide/night]
• No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. (Cesare Pavese) [suicide]
• At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death. (Cesare Pavese) [temptation/suicide/child/suicide]
• I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. (Ezra Pound) [suicide]
• Drunkenness is temporary suicide. (Bertrand Russell) [suicide]
• In times of extremity, the people of Israel less often sought refuge in drink, or suicide, than any other race of Europe... The Jews hid their bravery under the cloak of submissiveness; their heroism in facing contempt surpasses that of saints. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [people//suicide/europe]
• He's not going to get away from me that easily. I'll follow him through hell [after Kurt's suicide attempt] (Courtney Love) [follow/suicide]
• Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been. (Claire Forlani) [depression/suicide]
• We carefully thought out stuff. I spoke to a therapist, who I don't pay, who's a friend. I spoke with someone who works at the suicide hotline. (Billy Crystal) [suicide]
• Police figures show that, every month, more than 40 people nationwide commit suicide due to their escalating debts. (Jason Lee) [more/people/suicide]
• In humans, stress is linked to heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide. (Marilu Henner) [stress/disease/suicide]
• A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound. (Kid Rock) [people//suicide/sound]
• I don't persuade to suicide. (Jack Kevorkian) [suicide]
• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. (Lorna Luft) [suicide/anxiety/attention/remember]

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