Tom Stoppard Quotes

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

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

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

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.

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

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.

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

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

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

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

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.

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

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

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

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom.

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.

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.

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

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

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.