Aftermath Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

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 a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape…

— June Hunt

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

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 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

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The…

— Jeanette Winterson

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

— Al Green

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

— Walter Benjamin

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished…

— Margaret Atwood

Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no…

— Kay Redfield Jamison