Balthazar Getty Quotes

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

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

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

Slow-motion suicide

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.

Everyday should be a good day to die

July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.

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