Penn Jillette Quotes

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

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

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

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

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

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

Suicide is the only way out.

For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

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.

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

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

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.

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.