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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am just going outside and may be some time.
-Lawrence Oates
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Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
-Dorothy Parker
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
-Cesare Pavese
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
-Cesare Pavese
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
-Plato
Phaedo
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
-Ezra Pound
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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To die, to sleep --
To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
-William Shakespeare
Hamlet
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Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
-William Shakespeare
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Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
-Sophocles
Ajax (circa 409 B.C.)
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The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
-William Styron
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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
-Thomas Szasz
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Books about Suicide
