Cases Quote by Ian Stevenson

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

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

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

— Sigmund Freud

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

“they may pontificate that the suicide attempt was merely a ploy to gain attention or to manipulate others. No matter what may have motivated…

— Valerie Porr M.A

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

— Cesare Pavese

“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

Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or…

— Vincent Nichols

“Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom of severe…

— Sally Brampton

“When someone threatens suicide, when they tell somebody they're going to do it beforehand they're reaching out, hoping someone will stop them. The problem…

— Laura Wiess

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