John Irving Quotes

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

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.

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

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

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

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

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

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

I don't kill myself. I can't live like that.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

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

Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don't report it as much.

Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

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

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

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.

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

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

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

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.