But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.
When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
No one commits suicide because they want to die.
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something. But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.
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