Al Alvarez Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, "Well, my dear, doesn't it seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?"

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.

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.

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

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

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

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

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

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.

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.

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

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.