Suicide Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fail'…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“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

“It had seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with terminal illness or senility;…

— Julian Barnes

“It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility; a heroic…

— Julian Barnes

“Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always,…

— Alan Watts

“The rational arguments against suicide are compelling. It causes intense suffering for loved ones that few would intend in their right mind. It is…

— Michael Gerson

“A Man's suicide is the ultimate violence he can fling against the granite circumstance he could not vanquish. Its a lonely and desperate act…

— F. Sionil José

“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

“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and…

— Francesca Marciano

“SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF”

— Kamil Ali

“Individual suicide was wasteful, but mass suicide that sent a message of defiance, and that encouraged future generations to fight oppression to the death,…

— Jeff Guinn

“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