Civilization Quote by Havelock Ellis

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

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

When one being gets into the mood of life he can bring millions to life. When one fellow gets into the suicidal mood, he…

— Swami Nithyananda

“The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against their religion,…

— John Bateson

“I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval…

— Gene Doucette

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

“Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.”

— Robert E. Neale

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

— Peter D. Kramer

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

A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

— Haim Harari

Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for…

— Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

“Suicide is something that hangs around forever, dropping load after load of guilt on the living.”

— J.A. Jance