Aspect Quote by Elliott Smith

“David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more angles than…

— Steven D. Levitt

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly…

— Thomas Bernhard

“Not even a suicide these days does away with himself in desperation but deliberates on this step so long and so sensibly that he…

— Kierkegaard, Soren

“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish…

— William Styron

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

— Peter D. Kramer

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which…

— Umberto Eco

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

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which,…

— Emile Durkheim

“But when a person commits suicide, he does not do violence only to himself; he inflicts death upon those whom he least considered would…

— F. Sionil José

“People always think that a suicide is commited for one reason. But it is perfectly possible to commit a suicide for two reasons.”

— Albert Camus