Sylvia Plath Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

...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.

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

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

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

Suicide is the only way out.

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

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.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

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

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

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.

Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.

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

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

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.