It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case.… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood, and the hysterical parents, and the guilt, or any of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it,… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Reasoning led him into doubt and kept him from seeing what he should and should not do. Yet when he did not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I look in the mirror You know what I see? I see an ugly freak Looking back at me I stare in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Melancholy (1) An excess of black bile, anatomized by Robert Burton, embraced by the swooning Romantics as evidence of their fine sensibilities,… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
What if that one car didn't quite see me and just maybe hit me? Would anyone care that I'm gone. Suicide is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness... To cross out all the 'maybes' and give up the… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I though about killing myself. The idea of it circled my head, shining and lovely like a tinsel halo. How beautiful… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
“I still remember the moment. I ordered a chicken salad and it tasted like chalk. I knew I was depressed. And I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“LADY LAZARUS I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it-- A sort of walking miracle, my skin… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Oh no!’ replies Monsieur Tuvache indignantly. ‘We’re not murderers, you know. You have to understand that’s prohibited. We supply what is needed… — Jean Teulé Copy Share Image
Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel, who has failed as a writer, decides to commit suicide. He loads his revolver, places it at his side on his… — Enrique Anderson-Imbert Copy Share Image
See that girl? She's starving herself because she thinks you'll notice her if she's skinnier. She's cutting herself because she's cyber bullied.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We’ve done these mental-health assessment team studies for six years now—between nine and twelve [months] is where a lot of the stress… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the… — Brent L. Top Copy Share Image
She hides her feelings, she keeps everything all held up inside, she cries herself to sleep at night because she has some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Suicide is just a moment, Lexy told me. This is how she described it to me. For just a moment, it doesn't… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Suicides calling my name Getting closer and closer Down it drags me Right to the point, where I shouldnt be Whispers all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and… — James Franco Copy Share Image
If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image