Psychology Quote by Amélie Nothomb

“A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it…

— David Mitchell

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Individual suicide was wasteful, but mass suicide that sent a message of defiance, and that encouraged future generations to fight oppression to the death,…

— Jeff Guinn

People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue…

— David Mitchell

“Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.”

— Robert E. Neale

“Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Suicides, in his experience, were perfectly capable of feigning an interest in a future they had no intention of inhabiting.”

— Robert Galbraith

“People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed”

— Gail Godwin

“Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own map for…

— David Foster Wallace

“Even suicide has become less repugnant to many people than any number of other sins. Religion is totally to blame for this.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

“Suicides do not end their lives because they are weak, mentally ill, or depressed - though certainly they may be all those things. They…

— Jill Bialosky

“The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.”

— Robert E. Neale