Ken Kesey Quotes

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

Kill me, I don't care. I do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.