John F. Kennedy Quotes

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Slow-motion suicide

If he wanted to throw himself in the well, would you follow?

I sometimes wonder what use there is in trying to protect the West against fancied external threats when the signs of disintegration within are so striking

Suicide's a criminal offense — In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.

Civilizations die from suicide, not murder

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

He killed himself for wanting to live.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads, you've won your little game. You have proven your thesis that no-body-loves-me-every-body-hates-me, guess-I'll-just-eat-worms. You get to sink back into your hospital bed, shrieking with righteous indignation. See? you get to say. I knew you'd give up on me. I knew you'd leave.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

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.