Henry Rollins Quotes

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.

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

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths

That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

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

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

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

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.

Suicide kills two people.

...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.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

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

Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

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.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.