Cesare Pavese Quotes

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.

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

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

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

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.

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

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

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

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

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

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.