Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

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.

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.

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

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

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

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.

...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.

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

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

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

You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

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

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

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 could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

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

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

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

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.

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