Karl A. Menninger Quotes

...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.

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

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

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

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.

I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

Suicide is the only way out.

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.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

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.

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.