Danger Quote by Emile Durkheim

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

— Sigmund Freud

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

— Aretaeus of Cappadocia

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

“There are people who fantasize about suicide, and paradoxically, these fantasies can be soothing because they usually involve either fantasizing about others' reactions to…

— Thomas Joiner

“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

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

— Veronica Roth

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to…

— Richard Matheson

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

— Sinead O'Connor

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

“The horror of profound depression, and the hopelessness that usually accompanies it, are hard to imagine for those who have not experienced them. Because…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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