Aberration Quote by Emile M. Cioran

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

“When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. For what better grounds for suicide can there…

— Cyril Connolly

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

— Manly Hall

“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

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

— John Churton Collins

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

— Sigmund Freud

“Suicide is, after all, the result of a choice. However impulsive the action and confused the motives, at the moment when a man finally…

— Al Álvarez

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself,…

— Emile Durkheim

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

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

The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.

— William Carlos Williams

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