Primo Levi Quotes

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

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

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.

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

I don't kill myself. I can't live like that.

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

Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

Suicide is the only way out.

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

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

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.

So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

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.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.