Assumption Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

“There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as "succesful" and "unsuccesful" to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who "fail"…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“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

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

— Veronica Roth

“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody…

— Sally Brampton

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

Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible…

— Albert Camus

“The desire to commit suicide, however, has at its base a belief that life cannot or will not improve. Although that may be the…

— Marsha M. Linehan

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

“Suicides do not end their lives because they are weak, mentally ill, or depressed - though certainly they may be all those things. They…

— Jill Bialosky

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

— Anonymous

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

“But when a person commits suicide, he does not do violence only to himself; he inflicts death upon those whom he least considered would…

— F. Sionil José