Pleasure of tragedy is vicarious suicide

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group…

— Eli Roth

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

— Jack Kerouac

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

— Anonymous

If I died If I died tonight would you notice? Would you even care? If I died tonight would you find it humorous? Would…

— Anonymous

My bodies cold lips are blue why did I do this because of you? I feel the earth below me like a pillow under…

— Nik Is Dead

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.”

— Truman Capote

I lay on my floor crying again¦ shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth was dry…

— Nathan Daniels

“Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in…

— Mary Beth Miller

“No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret…

— Nina LaCour

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited…

— Ellen Willis

“And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to sketch a…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.

— Alice Cooper

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me… we become…

— Jojo Moyes