Action Quote by Cesare Pavese

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you…

— Philip Roth

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

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as…

— Denise Mina

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished…

— Margaret Atwood

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

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as…

— Stanley Hauerwas

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it…

— Joanne Greenberg

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his…

— Anonymous

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes…

— Susanna Kaysen

Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when…

— Earl A Grollman

Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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