suicide quotes

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the race.

- Henry Brooks Adams
  Letter to Charles Francis  Adams,  Jr,11  Apr.

Preface to aTwenty Volume Suicide Note.

-Jones
  Title of poetry collection.

With the publication of his private papers in1952, he committed suicide 25 years after his death.

-Baron
  Of Earl Haig. Men and Power:1917^1918.

Ourexcessive tolerance of suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

- EŁ  mile Durkheim
  Suicide: a Study in Sociology (translated by  John  A Spaulding and George Simpson,1952).

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide.With failure comes failure.

-Joseph Heller
  Interview in Playboy,  Jun.

   There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, thanthemanwho has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  Death in the Afternoon, ch.11.

Le suicide, cette myste  rieuse voie de fait sur l'inconnu. Suicide: that mysterious route towards the unknown.

-Victor Marie Hugo
  Les Mise  rables, vol.5, bk.3, ch.10.

Preparing for suicide is not a very intelligent means of defence.

- Bruce Kent
  Speech.

We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.

- (James) Ramsay Macdonald
  Quoted in the Observer, 3 May.

   A suicide kills two people, Maggie. That's what it's for.

- Arthur Miller
  Quentin.  After the Fall, act 2.

As he saw it, there was only one choiceto be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.

-Yukio pseudonym of  Hiraoka Kimitake Mishima
Acts ofWorship,'Sword' (translated byJohn Bester,1989).

Thethoughtofsuicide isagreat sourceofcomfort across many a bad night.

- FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche
  Jenseits von Gut und Bo«  se (Beyond Good and Evil), section157 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

Deathbed utterances, like suicide notes, are a powerful coinage, stamped byan awareness that words can outlive us.

- David Plout
  In theWall StreetJournal, 26 Sep, reviewingJ M CoetzeeAge of Iron (1990).

For coloured girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.

- Ntozake originally Paulette Williams Shange
  Title of 'choreo-poem'.

To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.2.

Some people swim lakes, others climb flagpoles, some join monasteries, but we, my friends, who have considered suicide take our daily walk with death and are not lonely. In the end it brings more honesty and care than all the democratic parliaments of tricks.

- Phyllis Webb
  EvenYour Right Eye,'To FriendsWho HaveAlso Considered Suicide'.