Body Quote by Jeanette Winterson

…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

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual…

— Marc Maron

The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount…

— Carl Jung

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

Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded…

— Annie Besant

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only…

— Cesare Pavese

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

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as…

— Denise Mina

Suicide is not so much the desire to die, as it is the fear of living.

— Anonymous

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such…

— June Jordan

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend:…

— Al Alvarez