Destructive Quote by Manly Hall

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

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

That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance…

— Andrew Solomon

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

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 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

…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

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

“There will likely be one important difference between corporeal suicide and digital suicide. Right now, one cannot destroy oneself utterly. We can blow our…

— Ron Currie Jr

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

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his…

— Anonymous

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

— Phil Donahue