Attempting Quote by Anonymous

“Look, what you call an attempted suicide is not what I intended—I just wanted to know the pain of dying…how it feels”

— Umera Ahmed

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

— Germaine Greer

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

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

— Bion of Smyrna

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

— Salman Rushdie

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

— Stephen King

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to…

— Emile Durkheim

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

— Josh Billings

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape…

— June Hunt

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“A successful suicide doesn't just happen, although, of course, there are exceptions. Someone happens to be walking across a bridge when the feeling hits.…

— Michael Anthony

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The…

— Jeanette Winterson