Bertrand Russell Quotes

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, "Well, my dear, doesn't it seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?"

Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.

Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player.

I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.

Cake and tea or death?

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

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.

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.

Suicide kills two people.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.